They say love is always
patient
and kind.

But your fury
sometimes knows
no self-control.

They say it’s better to love
and suffer
than to not love at all.

But my bruises
beg
to differ.

They say a lot of things about
love,

but they’ve never loved
someone like you.

A marketing specialist at a Romanian national radio station, Teodora Vamvu lives in Bucharest, Romania. Her microfiction and short prose have been featured on 101words, Spillwords, and MetaStellar, and her first non-fiction piece was a finalist in F(r)iction’s Creative Non-Fiction Sprin 2024 contest. She is also part of two prose anthologies published through Amazon, available in Kindle format and print-on-demand, and an upcoming poetry one.