When the Earth was new,
And darkness was still twinned with the deeps,
I knew you.

Time passed,
And so many years later,
We met in the flesh.
And I felt the same newness, the same dark waters-
I knew you were mine.

I knew, like the ever returning tide;
And the phases of the moon;
And the presence of all my guiding stars.
It is with such fierce certainty,
I knew you loved me.

At night,
I would hold your face between my hands,
And kiss you on the lips gently, smiling.
You would press your nose between my collar bone and the brown column neck.

I was always thankful
For your choice to press back against me.
Even then,
I knew like water
My hands could never really hold you.