If I met you now
I’d fall in love with you all over
though you are much changed
as I am
we have gone through the fall of leaves
seen ourselves turn from green to brown and then to silver
with each tread something is lost, something is found
the people we were at first
are gone as the flowers in that vase will be soon be dry and thrown
to return to earth and become something similar and altered
when I look back I cannot remember exactly who I was
though you are always clear in my mind like
a pure magnification
I see your unwrinkled brow and the folly of your youth
bandy-legged and laughing, your chin thrown back
I smell the moments that touched us then
and became unrecognizable bed fellows with
a bitter taste
perhaps you can only stay so long
dancing to the same song
before you need to move away, into the dusk
feeling for familiar, among unfamiliar
there all over, I would choose your hand
there all over, we’d move in tangent and harmony
your fingers touching that temple within me
that bows to your breath
my eyes bright in the darkness searching for your lips
if there were universes we could travel
and you and I were living light years apart
I believe we’d meet over and over
as we are born from and go back to time and again
the
starlight
that made us
