Come here,
Let me place this truth
In your hands-
You showed up
Like a notification I didn’t know
My soul had been waiting on.
And suddenly
The air inside my lungs
Had a reason.
You speak
And the quiet corners of me
Lean forward,
Like they’ve been listening
For your voice
Long before we met.
Your words land
Like fingerprints
On my bones.
Strange-
How quickly someone
Can shift from stranger
To a place where my thoughts wander
On sleepless nights.
I don’t count the hours,
Only the pulse of them;
Each one bending
Closer to your orbit.
If this is only a spark,
Let it be a wildfire.
It’s already burned a constellation
Into my chest.
If it endures,
I’ll spend the rest of my days
Reading the universe
As though you were the author
Of its stars.