“Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.” LoveFriendshipNostalgiaChessChess GameCheckmateChess PiecesChess QuotesChess MatchChessmenCheck This MateCheckthismate Author:RJ Arkhipov
“What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.” LoveFriendshipNostalgiaChessChess GameCheckmateChess PiecesChess QuotesChess MatchChessmenCheck This MateCheckthismate Author:RJ Arkhipov
“For a long moment we didn't move. We just stared at each other. So much time had passed since our eyes last met. So much had changed. I turned away and pressed my head to the cold window pane. I traced my initials onto the misted glass and, as they began to fade, He reached out his fingers and retraced my signature. I watched it fade once more and felt his moist fingers brush against my lips. He let them linger there a moment, then replaced them with his own lips. Then I woke up.” LoveFriendshipDreamsNostalgiaHe Author:RJ Arkhipov
“The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name? In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings. To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.” LoveFriendshipChessUnrequited LoveFriendship And LoveChess GameCheckmateChess PiecesDouleurChess QuotesChess MatchChessmenCheck This MateCheckthismate Author:RJ Arkhipov