👖HYMNE À L'AMOUR

As long as I am alive,

You will be loved,

You will be cared for—

In ways both quiet and endless.

Even from afar,

My love will be as deep

As it always was,

Unshaken by distance,

Unbroken by time.

My heart learned its beat

against yours.

Now my chest feels wrong:

too empty to hold anything,

too full to hold itself.

A pressure like breaking,

a silence like drowning.

Now my heart is lost—

swollen, starving,

still beating for someone

who isn’t here

to hear it.

Happy memories glow like lanterns,

guiding you through the darkness

of a world that feels too quiet

without its magic.

You’re grateful for the fairytale

you once lived in,

even if the castle now sleeps

and hope has faded into echoes

How do you move on from a love

that lasted a lifetime?

You don’t—

you tiptoe forward instead.

What happens when the moon

loses its sun—

when purpose slips,

when light is undone?

Does it fracture quietly,

a silent celestial scream,

scattering a million pieces

across the dark unseen—

like my heart,

wandering blind,

trying to remember

what it was

before it lost

its shine?

You float through days

with pockets full of starlight

and hands still reaching

for ghosts of yesterday.

Bathing in the love

of someone you adore—

warmth blooming even

as the sky begins to pour.

It feels like sunshine

breaking through the rain,

a gentle, golden shelter

from every quiet ache and pain.

Photography and Poetry: Yeoh Egwaras

Styling: Venice Collera

Associates: Seanelle Bersonda/Kianna Rodolfo

Calligraphy/Layout: Sam Bagsic/Eanna Vargas

Make Up by Win Denoyo

Grooming and hair by Jan Patrick Ivan Froa/Bryan Roquino

featuring Vienne Luna of Farah Models, Vera Dickinson, Phil Tungul and Ryan Sacopon