“The Labor of the Heart”

No, my friend, I am not a poet. My ink does not dance to the rhythm of stardust or weave sonnets from moonbeams. Yet, sometimes, my verses tiptoe along the edge of rhyme, whispering secrets to the wind. I am a purveyor of elevated, lofty prose—a weaver of tales that stretch their wings toward the heavens. My words, like silk threads, spin stories of forgotten lands and lost loves. But poetry? No, that eludes me. Only a storyteller, hardly sublime. I gather fragments of memories, string them together like pearls on a thread. Each tale a constellation, stitched across the … Continue reading “The Labor of the Heart”