“If my heart was a map,

it would be roads and cities

made of stories

and poems and people

that conjured storms

within my soul

just like him.

Perhaps that is why

when our eyes meet,

it feels like I am looking

into the eye of a hurricane

the mind of a typhoon

the heart of a tornado.

There is only one way

for us to survive this.

Whatever you do,

my darling.

Don’t blink.”