Do you remember when you fell for thirty minutes
and when you landed the impact split the earth into seven thousand shades of blue hue
and not a word left your lips, they wouldn't do that without kissing you goodbye
I kept my hands clasped together the whole time, but you don't remember that
because you weren't really there, not until the next time
when everything was new but you already knew it all far too well
the lines were already written, you'd rehearsed them your whole life
no, you hadn't, because you never thought you'd need them, really
because you were never clumsy and you never fell
kept yourself steady under thirty layers of armour
but who knew that tides had hands with which to hold you
and undress your layers without hesitation
and who knew that love had a name
but I learnt it quickly
your name
I learnt it like it was scripture, scripture that I believed in
and kept your pages close to my chest looking only when you told me to
redefining blind faith, as you taught me to see to eradicate the blind
to find not divinity, but affinity beneath your cover
wrapped around your spine