Aquarius

By Kayla Francis

She had no idea I had been writing love poems about her.. FOR TEN YEARS!

I never set out to write a book. I was just writing her.

It started the day we met—a single journal entry, nothing fancy, just a way to capture what I was feeling in real time. And then I kept going. Through the rush of falling in love, the certainty of knowing she was it, the quiet moments that don’t make for grand love stories but are the love story.

For ten years, I kept writing. I never shared most of it, never even thought to. Not because I was hiding it, but because it felt natural to keep adding to it, like breathing. And then one day, it hit me—what if I gave it to her? What if she could see, word for word, what it’s been like to love her?

That’s how Aquarius was born. Not as a book, but as a decade of real, raw, unfiltered emotion—written in the exact moments it was felt. The words grew with the love itself, shifting from simple thoughts to poetry that tried, over and over, to put into words what she is to me.
Now, for the first time, I’m sharing it. With her. With you. Because love—especially this kind of love—deserves to be seen.