Enoch and Selena

Enoch and Selena: The Distance Between Heaven and Love

by PLOGOS

“He looked at heaven.
She looked at him.
And in that gaze, the distance between them became eternity.”

In a land between myth and revelation,
Enoch walked alone.
He was not made for love—but for the Voice.
He belonged to no woman,
no flesh,
no joy that could anchor him to the earth.
Only the calling—
and the silence between the stars.

Selena, by contrast, was born with the fire of empathy.
She wept when others were silent.
She saw beauty in brokenness, and wholeness in sorrow.
When she met Enoch,
she did not try to change his path—
she simply offered her hand.

But his hand never met hers.

Their story was not of lovers.
It was the story of two souls shaped by different eternities:
one yearning for heaven,
one yearning for human touch.

Enoch left, not out of pride,
but out of fear—
fear that to hold her
was to lose his path.

Selena did not curse him.
She lit candles for him.
And though her arms were empty,
her love remained full.

Years passed.

Enoch prayed more fiercely than ever.
But he never again heard the Voice.
Only her name
echoed in the silence.

Selena, in her old age, wrote a single poem:

“He was looking for heaven.
But I—
I was holding it.”

And so their legacy remains—
not in marriage,
not in shared graves,
but in the unbridgeable distance between calling and affection.

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Author’s Note:
This story was inspired by theological reflections and the Arthurian motif of the Grail Quest. Enoch represents the soul torn between mission and emotion, while Selena embodies the grace of love unreturned. It is a tale of unfulfilled beauty, unspoken prayers, and the sacredness of sacrifice.

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