Before you kiss someone for the first time, Just wait.
Take a second to look at them. They are so new and so unfamiliar. Right now you don’t know how they taste, How their hands will intertwine with yours, How they’ll exhale after touching your bones.
You won’t see them like this ever again
Stare into their wanting - the apprehension budding inside their pupils - they don’t know as well. In their mind you are uncharted territory as well.
Isn’t that special?
Keep it. That’s how you’ll never lose them, Or so I think. Every so often after this moment, look at them through these soon to be ancient eyes. Find this vision, this exact dialect of witness, find these pair of eyes
And don’t lose this wonder. Don’t lose the spark.
For if you do, The burns will leave you scared of the sun, While the sunlight will still dance in their hair.
Even the universe is jealous of this moment, and will take this away from you in years to come,
Just know If you are the forest fire I will be the rainfall calming smoke scented winds.
Skin is delicate But this story could be beautiful, As we dive into the unknown.
- an excerpt from a book I’ll never have the courage to write