A soft ache lingers in this chapter; the ache of falling for someone who doesn’t yet realize what they hold. In Surrender, Rita Marie lets her guard down completely, offering love as both a balm and a prayer. Through poems like Snow, Collapse, and Let Me Be, she expresses the tension between hope and restraint, fantasy and fear. This chapter captures the dizzying feeling of a new connection, one that feels fated, yet fragile. Love becomes devotion, vulnerability becomes beauty, and snow becomes the metaphor for everything she can’t say aloud. This is Rita at her most openhearted, daring to believe in love again, no matter how unsure the ending may be.