Summer, Star, and Starlight

If I had never met you, would I have waited in loneliness like lavender? Would my solitary shadow have yearned greedily for love until it withered away in melancholy?

If I had never met you, would I still have wandered the world alone, following the traces of the wind to every place I wanted to go, leaving behind my loneliest soul?

If I had never met you, would I still be that child who cries easily, wrapping myself in thick sorrow on a silent, desolate night?

If I had never met you, would I have calmly faced the afternoon sun until tears of pain streamed down my face, then closed my weary eyes and fallen asleep smiling through the pain and tears?

If I had never met you, would I never have learned what love is? Would I never have understood what it means to care?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.