SAFE TOUCH DOWN

Have you ever had someone come into your life out of nowhere, make an impression so great that it slices through you, holds a mirror to your face, and forces you to step through a reckoning so powerful that you know you'll never be the same?

This is… SAFE TOUCH DOWN

Mona Lamar and Damien St. James - the story

They didn’t end up with a bow-wrapped ending.
No dramatic reunion. No perfect kiss in the rain.
Just two people who collided—not to complete one another, but to awaken something deeper

New Orleans was where their stories first tangled.
The city where her soul was born and his grief began.
It never let either of them go.

Mona, the artist born in New Orleans, sharpened in Dallas, and reborn in the Caribbean, found her voice again.

Damien, who once ran for glory in the league, and ran from pain long before that, found his truth—not in the roar of the crowd, but in the quiet space where healing begins.

She stood on a red-dot stage and told the world how writing saved her life.
He stood in a rec center gym in the Treme and told a room full of boys that being strong doesn’t mean staying silent.

And maybe that’s what love is.
Maybe not forever.
But a mirror. A spark. A reckoning.
A sacred push into becoming.

They may never say it again.
But they’ll never unfeel it.