Love the street where I met you.

A whirlwind of people, a river of indifferent faces, and then, you.

A glimmer in the urban grayness, an off-key note in the symphony of asphalt.

Your smile, a crack in the wall of my solitude, letting in the light of an unexpected sun.

The noise of the city fades, only the echo of your voice remains, a melody etched in the silence of my soul.

That crossroads, once an anonymous dot on my map, is now a beacon, a sacred place, the epicenter of a universe that revolves only around you.

Time, once a relentless river, now stops, bends, adapts to our encounter.

Memory, a parched garden, blooms with the memory of your gaze, of your hand brushing mine, a fleeting touch that becomes eternity.

This asphalt, a silent witness to our first encounter, holds the secret of an unexpected love,

a love that sprang from the dry earth of the city,

an oasis in the desert of routine.

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina, based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, awarded several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects of the Hispanic World Union of Writers and is the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is the Commissioner of Honor in the executive cabinet IN THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS DIVISION, of the UNACCC SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA CHAPTER.