It started with a message

On an ordinary night

You asked me about numbers

While I stared at blue screen lights 🖥️

A math olympiad conversation

Turned into sunrise calls 🌅

Funny how the smallest moments

Can become your world

You listened to my chaos

Every dream inside my head

While the whole world kept on moving

You stayed instead 🌙

And every little "goodnight"

Felt brighter than the stars ✨

Somehow someone far away

Was never really far

And I don't know if you realize

What your voice can do

How it turns my worst days quiet

Just by saying, "I'm here for you" 🤍

So when our eyes meet across crowded rooms

Time forgets to move

And for a couple seconds

It's just me and you 💫

No grand movie moment

No fireworks in sight

But I swear the whole world disappears

When you look in my eyes ✨

Oh, Afrin 🌸

You became my safest place somehow

And if love has ever sounded real

It sounds like us right now 💕

You shine in ways I can't explain

Always first, always strong 🥇

While I'm building dreams from broken wires

Trying to belong

But you never made me smaller

Never laughed when I was strange

You held every scattered piece of me

Like they were worth the weight 🤍

August twenty-second 🗓️

Still lives inside my chest

Like the night the universe decided

I had been blessed ✨

And maybe we're still quiet

When we stand there face to face

But your eyes say all the things

Words could never say 🌸

Maybe someday years from now

We'll laugh about these days

About competitions and stolen glances

And all the things we couldn't say

But if forever is real at all

I think it starts like this

Two hearts learning slowly

What peace feels like to exist in ...

So when our eyes meet across crowded rooms

I still lose my breath

Like every little moment with you

Rewrites who I am again ✨

And if the world grows heavy

If everything turns dark

I'll still find my way back home

By the light inside your heart 💚

Oh, Afrin 🌿

If someone asks what heaven is

I'll tell them 'bout the girl

Who answered one old Instagram story

And changed my life with it ✨

from a blue screen night to sunrise calls,

every little moment led right here.

ridwan → afrin

august twenty-second lives forever. ✨