Sometimes I wonder if we met at the wrong time.
We were so young,
Frontal lobes unformed,
But souls expanded into sublime.
I remember the days
Where you’d pick me up from class,
Hours passed in a blink
Of, “what about this” and
“I never thought of it like that.”
I always thought the love would fade,
And all that love we made
Would be supplanted,
Forgotten after a decade.
I’ve never stopped being in free fall;
All these years later,
You haven’t faded from my mind at all.
Your laugh was the warmest,
Your mind had me ravenous;
I gave you pieces of myself
That I hadn’t even known existed.
You had me at my purest form,
The barriers to my soul laid bare.
It was the scariest thing I’ve ever felt,
Yet the pleasure is impossible to compare.
The way we intertwined went beyond body and mind;
I was yours, and you were mine,
Like we had been together for lifetimes.
It was love before I knew what that meant,
And all of these years I’ve spent
Learning to love myself, growing through the pain and strife,
Even now that I’ve lived so much life,
Just the thought of you unravels me.
I don’t know what’s a choice versus what’s meant to be;
I don’t know how to reconcile
The way you still feel so familiar to me;
I don’t know what to make of true love,
Whether I believe in soulmates,
But this thing between you and I…
It is simply impossible to replicate.