The Sagrada Família
a portrait of Cecilia
She was never meant to be finished quickly.
Some things take longer
than the world has patience for —
towers reaching in every direction,
colours that have no right to be
*that beautiful together.*
They bombed her once.
Eight years of blueprints, turned to ash.
*That was Khanh.*
And yet — the walls held.
The stone remembered its shape.
*The towers kept their reaching.*
Because you do not need to be finished
to be worth entering.
*You do not need to be complete to take someone''s breath away.*
She will be finished one day.
Not by him.
*By herself. In her own time. In her own colours.*
*And it will be extraordinary.*