New Love: from the diary of the hopeless romantic

It was raining outside

But the clouds parted in my mind's eye

Letting through a shaft of light

A white light that burned magnificent

With the hot intensity of a one thousand watt bulb, in the cranium of someone who just had an epiphany

And I knew...

As I laid my awkward glance upon you for the first time

I knew who you were

You were the verse to the melody that's moved me since my first days on this earth

Then my heart whispered to my head

This moment,

This moment right here is already a memory

A sliver of significance

Illuminating the caverns of my mind

Filed to my thought archives

Between the folds of my gray matter

Within molecules of time

Fused to the very atoms of O2 and carbon dioxide

With each rise and fall of my chest

You have become my first and last breath

From now until death

Every trial and test in between

I want nothing more than to be where your ends meet

And not just on the days

When the silk of white rose petals kiss the bottoms of my feet

And warm vanilla fills the air

But even on the days when you can't stand to look at me

Our words become the last grains of sand

In the spent half of the hour glass

Yes

Even then

Even when

My best is less than sufficient

Even when

We don't speak before bed and the sun rises on sour emotion that's been incubating since the night before, you see

Even the sweetest melody catches days off its beat

We slur the words to our verse

Hardship and victory will change the sound of the song that we make

But even then baby

It will still be okay