It’s the trivial patter of feet. It’s way you squeezed my left hip just to let me know. It’s the way you dry your hair and the world disappears. It’s the way your head fully tilts back to laugh, and your voice drops a register. my breath only registering against your chest. It’s the way you kiss my neck, breathing me in. It’s the way you allow me to know your thoughts, so that I may bottle them away to save them when I need to be enveloped in the ideas of you. It’s the way you’ll dance with my two left feet, even though you know the way. It’s the way your hands move when explaining versus describing, and the shifting of your brow. It’s the way you tell me you love me and the depths hidden within your eyes.
While the moments in between may hold the foundations of your love,
It’s when time stands still
Where you hold me in the sunshine and the starlit sky,
It’s the way you tell me you love me, and I think I know why.