If Life Could Only Bring Us Together at First Sight

Women loving women | Mutual attraction

She was the only spring in my long winter.

You are more than my teacher. You are the light in my darkest days, the feelings I can't stop writing on my scratch paper, the brightest light of my youth.

Glances across the classroom, your gaze from the lectern, even the sound of you explaining a problem became footnotes to my heart fluttering.

But the boundaries of our roles and the expectations of the world meant we were doomed from the start to have no future together.

I spent my whole youth chasing that light called you. In the end, all I dared to do was hide a summer brighter than any correct answer in my notes app.

You lit up my world with your red pen, but you couldn't stay with me until the end of summer.

Theme: Some lights are meant only to be looked up to