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Adina Nicoleta Pițigoi, 19 years old, is participating in the 6th International Literary Creation Competition, from Bucharest, Romania. She is guided by Prof. Diana Gomboș, ”Mihai Viteazul” National College. We are grateful for the participation and wish her success.

The Phoenix Of Love

Perhaps I’ve lost my mind hoping for your return,
Waiting for the moment upon your chest to lay,
For I have spent all this time watching letters to burn,
My heart ached for you, my radiant angel with face of clay. 

You’ve ruined a part of me, as my heart wept endlessly each day,
But still a fragile whisper rises from our love anew,
I kept the feelings for you to help me grow anyway,
Weaving a path where my dreams come true. 

From the shadows and the scars that remained, 
Through the ashes, your past love hope ignites its flame, 
I’ve spent a lifetime, yet still, nothing’s explained,
All the years of heartache and flame I’ve learned none of us carry the blame.

Because you hurt me, my heart, like a phoenix, rose in another life,
Each ending is a beginning, full of hope and fiery flare,
For every sad memory I now embrace as a beginning free of strife, 
And each ending is a beginning that still carries pain to bear.
You made me happier by leaving me behind,
The love I held for you helped me grow and shine,
For I could see the world through my own soul defined, 
To be the heroine of this story, wholly mine.

I am now the guardian of my fate, my existence,
Through the ruins of what we once held my dear,
Because your end has become my new beginning,
I found my strength, no longer chained by fear.

I start from here, but from now on, I begin without you,
To become another me, more feminine and strong,
To seek a path where my heart doesn’t follow us , but beats true,
Unafraid, no longer eclipsed by your end all along.

And when we both shall die, it will be our shared end,
A tale reborn beyond life’s fleeting tide,
Yet perhaps we’ll begin a new story to transcend,
Where love and fate once more collide.


Frozen Soul

Icebound face, my angel sculpted in frost,
Through countless winters, I have waited for you to melt,
To turn warm and all at once to find what’s lost,
To whisper the love you’ve always felt.
Face of frost, a snowman’s guise, 

You’ve been this way since our first glance,
Through still and cold, you never rise,
Beloved by all in silent trance.
Frozen visage, a snowman cold, 
I hold you close, yet still you stay,

Your frozen heart, so distant, bold,
In vain I hope to mend your way.
A face of frost, a snowman still, 
To love you is never enough,
I gaze at you with tearful will,

Pierced by a ray, yet cold and tough.
My lovely one, so cold, so fair, 
I fall for you with growing flame,
But now my view is changes, aware,
Since the mighty sun has pierced your frame.

I was focused on that thaw, on you revealing love,
Not seeing frozen hearts give all they are capable of,
Now I cherish these last moments, brief but true,
For all I longed for has broken me in two.
For your beauty was found in silence profound,

Unable to voice the depths you concealed,
And though all loved you, your love was mine unbound,
You poured out your silence and a snowman revealed.
Now I see the beauty in all I behold,
Your coldness has become the warmth I embrace,

And you are more beautiful than ever, untold,
I’m sure I will love you for eternity’s grace.
Through you, the sunbeams softly flow, they warm my soul,
And from the snow, a flower starts to grow,
I love you as you are, forever whole, 

I will freeze you again when you start to glow.
You are the one that warms me and it burns within,
I’ve learned to love you, though it’s too late to begin, 
Let’s go in a journey together to a winter’s embrace,
Where snow falls gently on your upturned face.


Mortals

Let us love as if we were carved from stars, as if endings could not find us.
I want to love you like we’ll never rot, like time can’t touch us,
like we can outrun death.
But we’re human—and that means someday one of us will bury the other.
And we are made of dust and death walks close behind.

Still, I see your face in every dark corner.
I don’t know how to live in a world where I can’t find you.
When I’m with you, I forget I can die.
The love I feel for you glows in the silence between heartbeats.
No, eternity does not belong to us.

But my forever, my eternity calls out—
craving, aching, for the sound of your name.
 You gave me life when I didn’t ask for it.
And now, the thought of dying loving you feels like the cruelest kind of hope.
You summoned me into life without a word.

And now, to vanish with your name on my lips
feels almost divine.
to love you until I die
feels like the most beautiful punishment.
You made me live before I knew what living meant.

Every moment without you is time that refuses to pass, 
a small death that repeats itself in whispers.
And if death dares to part us, let it know it came too late.
Because I belonged to you
long before I ever existed.