Time and Love

When younger, he said:

Noah Krubitzer

“The night sky is wavering. Stars scatter, obscure, and seclude in the vast dark, only a few gleaming at once.

The mysteries are hidden snug behind millions of miles, Crouched behind centuries of fatal folly.

Worrying about it must be useless, as I will always have your eyes, and the deep wonders behind them.”

When older, he said instead:

“The night sky may be wavering, But so are we, far faster. Our lives are whispers in a meager draft And those stars are gales of their own. I will not know your eyes forever.

But my dear, be not disheartened. In this finite world, Nothing may be endless And nor would I wish it were.

There’s a value in the finite, for I must be truly blessed to live in your brief bright light.”

Noah Krubitzer is a writer from Wilkes-Barre, in the twilight of their time at King’s College. A history and theology dual-major, they are once again writing after studying abroad. When not writing, Noah is either reading, browsing the internet, or obsessing over professional wrestling.

You know something has changed when home doesn’t smell like home anymore, even if you’ve moved before. It’s different this time.

Paige Gould

Maybe your dog barks at you when you walk in instead of greeting you with a wagging tail and wet nose kisses.

The tree in the front yard that you swore was there the last time is absent from the forage.

The slip of a tongue when your mother refers to your apartment as home or how you slowly transition from using one address to the other.

It happens so gradually that you may not even realize until something snaps you out of it and thinking back all you can see is the difference is so vast that you can no longer pinpoint when it all changed.

All you know is that this is life now, and though it’s neither good or bad part of you mourns.

Paige Gould is a fourth year Physician Assistant student, president of the GSA, and chairperson for the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. She had her first professional literary publication in the Spring of 2020 in “The American Writer’s Review.”