I Fell in Love with Hope - Lancali

Memories twist into each other, not like film strips, more like a book’s
flipping pages melting into one another. That’s all a person is in the
end, isn’t it? Bones and blood and beauty spliced to memories.
Four.
Coeur does not think of that as he descends into the depths of an
ocean so deep, he cannot see the surface. He does not remember
the things he did or didn’t do.
Three.
He remembers Sony cheating at monopoly, Hikari’s jokes and
drawings, Eric flicking him, the long drives with his father, the sports
games on tv he watched with his brothers, his mother chuckling and
bringing him his dinner late at night.
Two.
He does not think of loneliness, hollowness, or heart. He thinks of
Neo’s lips and the laughs he breathed against his neck and his cold,
yet gentle hands, and his little smiles, and the tear that rolled down
his cheek the last time he saw him.
One.
Coeur sinks into the dark.
And his love for Neo sinks with him.
henry
IBEFORE
don’t know what love is.
Some say it has two forms. It can be roaring and passionate. It
swallows you, consumes you, the other person a source of
breathing. Like a violent flame that burns out in a single night.