She had permanent grass stains on her shoulder blades and the skin on her back always carried the scent and salt of the earth her hair danced like green fields in the wind and had the subtle fragrance of lilacs and though her flesh was tied to her bones and her feet walked the ground beneath them her heart was not bound by these same rules of gravity and was often found swimming in the space between the stars and her eyes where painted with scenes of the sky held up by oceans and oceans held down by the sky
he could see himself in these reflections broken and incomplete and that somewhere in his life death would be there and this would still not change in the end and that no life lived is every complete and last breaths are just interruptions of what is that turn into what will be
he knew she had mysteries to be and mysteries to discover and questions to ask without speaking and answers that couldn’t be put into words she was perfectly herself inside and outside of her human frailties and she held a comfort that could only be found in being comfortable with your flaws
somewhere in the sound of the syllables of her name was a love open and free that needed no redemption gave no judgement held no sin or shame only the willing connection to those seeking to find something more than just the infinite stars splattered across the endless universe the something of wisdom hidden in the heartbeat of not knowing what is still to be found and finding what can never be found by anything other than the truth of giving love freely to the greatest fears of the unknown