Triangulated
“Do you ever wonder if we’re in someone else’s love story?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean we can see what we want, but have no direction of the plot.”
When I looked back at her, she was already looking at me, wearing a smile that seemed to promise things would be ok. Then we both stared into the opaque darkness beyond the garden wall.
This is the story of Lily and Miles - or rather the context in which their relationship exists. Characters held together in a web of desire, pieces of a puzzle, each with their own story to tell.
Chapter 3 - Two Memories Converging Into Mine
There are two of them there.
One is me, the other concealed within an inebriated blink.
He’s there behind my eyes as I watch his memories like a film,
Until the light starts pouring in.
Chapter 2 - Masquerading as Adults
What did blue promise over green? Did her eyes conceal a hidden loyalty that was required? Or something I couldn’t provide. A need born out of a loneliness that I couldn’t understand. Destined to swim hopelessly against the inevitable tide of a shared life.
Chapter 1 - Worlds Traversed Through Komorebi
The distant sound of tears tapped against the windows of their conscious minds, concealed by the dying embers of the world they still occupied.