I met a man
who was not my husband
but he taught me what love could look like outside of vows
unspoken, raw, and beautifully fractured.
We fell fast,
like two meteors racing to collide,
blazing and burning,
unaware of the crater we'd leave behind.
Time was never kind to us
it squeezed tight, wrung us out,
left us gasping,
clawing for space that was never ours to c…