Un Video Para Mi Amor -

I am making this video because love, when it is real, is not a photograph. It is a roll of film still being developed. It is the half-second between the flash and the image appearing. It is the waiting .

So here is my promise, recorded in light and shadow:

I am making this video because words, sometimes, forget how to arrive. They leave my mouth as smoke—beautiful, but gone before you can hold them. un video para mi amor

Because love— this love—is not a feeling. It is a verb. A small, stubborn action. Repeated. Again. And again.

I will not love you perfectly. I will forget things. I will be late. I will say the wrong words. I am making this video because love, when

You walking away from the camera, then stopping. Turning back. Smiling slightly.

I am also scared.

Soft focus on a map, then your fingers tracing a line between two cities.

Scared that one day, this video will be the only proof that we existed. Scared that the algorithm will bury us, that the pixels will degrade, that your face will become a blur of ones and zeros. It is the waiting