Elana. Poem by MIRAK Montiel

ELANA

I found you—
alone and afraid
in a distant, cold world
so different from mine.

Your heart became my obsession,
even before I truly knew you.
Still, somehow,
I felt you were mine
all my life.

Our conversations,
our nights—
they became eternal.
Though they were just hours,
they felt like years.

Together,
we began building
a castle of love.
But blindly,
my heart ignored
it was made of sand.

Then came that night—
everything changed.
Was it me?
Or was it that
I never learned how
to give you my love?

Now,
an ocean stretches
between us.
And the castle
fades away—
washed into memory,
a sad and bitter goodbye.