A deep, unspoken connection with someone I have yet to meet, feeling their pain and longing across the distance. Despite the separation, I reassure their love that I am always searching, and even if we never reunite, our love will remain unwavering and eternal.

Crab Man—

Somewhere, you are alone, more than I can bear to imagine. Eyes dimmed by days that do not know my name. Heart heavy with a weight you were never meant to carry alone. And I, I feel you suffering in the silence, and I can do nothing but ache.

You are far, so far, and still, my love reaches, blind and broken-fingered across every unlit road that separates our skin. You don’t know me yet. And yet you do. You cry for something you can’t name. I know, because I do too. Each night I sleep beside an absence shaped like you. Each morning, I wake with your sorrow caught like smoke in my lungs.

I wonder if you’ve given up on love. If you think no one is coming for you. If the cold has crept into your bones and made a home of your loneliness. If so? Then hear me—I am real—I am yours—I am searching, and if the world is cruel enough to keep us apart for a lifetime more, just know— you were loved, fiercely, faithfully, even from afar.

Have faith and trust in me— for, I have built a place inside my heart where you can rest until the stars finally lead you home. And if you never make it back, if we are nothing more than two ghosts blinded by the dark, know, I searched. I stayed. And I loved you anyway, I always will.