DISPATCH 391.87
3:33 PM
Someone played that song you hated.
I smiled so hard I could’ve cried.
Missing you has teeth sometimes.
Today it was gentle.
 —Castor
CK Pollux
DISPATCH 391.119 to Centauri
9:11 Am
A bird landed on the fence and looked at me like it knew.
Knew I was still loving you
like it was the first day and the last.
 —Castor
DISPATCH 391.22.9 to Centauri
3 Am
I wrote your name in the steam of the mirror.
It disappeared before I could say goodbye.
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—Castor
DISPATCH 391.29 - to Centauri
10:30 PM
Sometimes I wonder if your silence is love, too.
Maybe the stars are your letters now,
and I just need to learn to read better.
 —Castor
Centauri - I Am Not Angry You Left the Sky
Centauri,
I used to think I would rage forever.
That your silence was betrayal. That your absence was a wound.
But love like this—the real kind—doesn’t sharpen its teeth on grief.
It learns to sing beside it.
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I am not angry.
I miss you with everything I
DISPATCH 391.222 - to Centauri
2:22 pm
I found a hair that wasn’t mine.
It was from you—years ago, I think.
Still curled like it was waiting to be remembered.
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—Castor
DISPATCH 391.54 - to Centauri
7:45 Am
The sky was bruised with pink and gold.
It looked like the inside of me
when I remembered your laugh.
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—Castor
DISPATCH 391.18 - to Centauri
2:15 am
I reached for you in a dream again.
Woke with my hand over my chest
and your name clutched in my fist.
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—Castor
DISPATCH 391.17 - to Centauri
I looked for you in the stars tonight,
but they were cloudy with memory.
Centauri - The Way the Moon Carried Your Name
Centauri,
Tonight the moon is hung low and gold—
the kind that makes the whole world feel like it’s waiting for a story to be told.
And I realized:
I only ever wanted to tell you mine.