as the words escaped your
struggling mouth
and made their way down my spine
leaving goosebumps in their wake,
I looked away from your
vulnerable face.

  we were soulmates, you said.

the possibility that I could have a soulmate
had never crossed my mind before;
it didn't make sense to me how one person
could be made for another.
but when you spoke those words, everything made sense.

it was then that I understood why you were the only person to ever see
the galaxies in my eyes,
and why I was the only person to see beyond the galaxies in yours.