All Sails Have Passed

Same gender, teacher and student, with a significant age gap. Each of these alone might have been surmountable, but combined, they shattered every reason to hope. This was a tug-of-war that lasted eight years. A single word, "Teacher," stripped me of the right to love you. "You are the moonlight seeping through the window, illuminating the endless night." After countless ships have sailed, my heart breaks by the white duckweeds. "From now on, you owe the past, and I owe the future."