love song

14/2/2026

I did the thing I told myself I would never do. The sun hanging low and the ice crawling out and me, walking across it. Like children, strangers followed each other out there, over the water, walking like holy playful beings. Dogs ran, freed from their leashes. And so did the people. Adults making snow angels. Bending to a tender joy in the cold air that could not be resisted. There was still the fear, underneath, like water. Any moment the ice could break and all of us, so far out, would fall in. But we kept walking, like we were being summoned to the opposite bank, to those fuzzy remote black trees. And the sun painted everything, the white ice holding the whole world. We kept our distance from each other, just in case. But still there was laughter. And silence. And pictures. And light. And it reminded me of how I told myself I would never do a long distance relationship again. But then I met you and the path of my life seemed so obvious. One step in front of the other. Walking. A miracle. Finding each other again on the opposite shore. Of course there was uncertainty underneath. But we kept on moving forward, you and I. Our footsteps making patterns on the gleaming snow of our souls.

xx Sidney