Healing Through Romance

Heartfelt stories of love, healing, and self-discovery.

From Colorado’s high country — writing on forgiveness, personal growth, and the words that carry us back to each other.

A note before you read

“Some loves are called from a distance — across years, across silence, across the whole width of a mountain.”

This is a home for stories and poems about what love asks of us, what forgiveness costs, and how a person grows into the life they were meant for. Take your time here. The mountains aren’t in a hurry, and neither is healing.

— Lataurus

01 — Exploring Emotions

Exploring Emotions

“Every emotion has a story. Like the shadows of mountains, our hearts hide stories of their own.”

Snow-capped mountain ridges photographed by Lataurus

Forgiveness

The Courage to Let Go

Some wounds are invisible, yet they shape the way we love. Stories of forgiveness, second chances, and finding peace with what we cannot change.

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Butterfly resting on a flower photographed by Lataurus

Growth & Love

The Beauty of Becoming

Growth is not always beautiful while it is happening. Sometimes we must lose ourselves before discovering who we were meant to become.

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Person walking by a mountain stream photographed by Lataurus

Poetry & Reflection

Where Words Find Their Home

Some feelings are too deep for conversation. They belong in letters, poetry, and stories that remind us we are not alone.

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Black-and-white photograph by Lataurus of silhouetted cows at sunset

“The moonlight tells so many stories.”

From “No One Said This Would Be Easy”

02 — Poems

Poems

Poetry and writing by Lataurus — newest first.

No One Said This Would Be EasyNovember 2026 · PoemNo one said this would be easy. Read poem → New York Rain Has FeelingsDecember 2025Why do we let time pass Read → The Simple ThingsOctober 2025They always say one thing about pain: it will come when you least expect it. Read → I Feel Sorry for StarsAugust 2025Breaking down is the hardest thing. But letting yourself cry without fighting— that is mercy for your soul. Read → WordsAugust 2025Do you even know what you’re looking for anymore? Are you even trying? Read → Pain That Lives in JulyJuly 2025My mind is not here. Read → Bitter and Sweet, I Get It NowJuly 2025The bitterness of sweetness, I get it now Read → Feelings.July 2025How can I feel again when I close my eyes and see tears in hers? Read → MAGNETICMarch 2025What are the limits to our feelings? Read → WildFireMarch 2025“Be careful.” Read → The ConsumerJanuary 2025The veil wrapped around me, snug and familiar, like sheets on a cold Sunday morning. Read → Capricorn KissesJanuary 2025In and out. Read → French Vanilla with Black CoffeeDecember 2024I sit in the middle of nowhere, gazing out the window of a small café on Seattle’s outskirts. Read → The Echo of Christmas PastNovember 2024What program is playing in your heart? How did it harden the things that once brought you joy? Read → Whispers in the MountainsNovember 2024Why do I study her? These are the questions I always ask myself. Read →

Latest PoemNovember 2026By Lataurus

No One Said This Would Be Easy

No one said this would be easy. As a kid, I remember smiling, walking into school, the teacher asking, What do you want to be when you grow up?

03 — About

Heartfelt stories of love,
healing, and self-discovery

Black-and-white portrait of Lataurus in a hat and sunglasses, seated on a rock by the water in Colorado — Lataurus — seated on a rock by the water, Colorado

Lataurus — Colorado storyteller

I’m Lataurus, writing as Lataurus Black from Colorado, where the mountains set the terms for everything: the weather, the pace, and the honesty.

The Silhouette of Mountains is where I write about healing through romance — not romance as escape, but as the place where people tell the truth, forgive what they can, and grow into who they’re becoming.

The four themes are the compass: forgiveness, growth, love as the way through, and the art of the words themselves. If a piece of mine has ever found you at the right moment, this site is being built so the next one can find you too.

Writes as: Lataurus Black
Based in: Colorado
Tagline: Healing Through Romance
Latest poem: No One Said This Would Be Easy