Today
My heart
Lost its rhythm
For a moment
Not like fear
Not like pain
Like a bird forgetting the pattern of its wings mid-flight
Startled by the sudden awareness of the sky
I told you, just that
And you
You did not question the sky
You became it
You held me
The way gravity holds the earth
Without force
Without permission
Without asking if it should
And my body
Which had been speaking in fragments
Fell back into a language
Older than thought
But you
You do not stay
You are not made of staying
You are like tide
Like wind
Like something
That belongs to movement
And I
I do not ask
The ocean
To become a shore
I have learned
What it is to live
Without arrival





























































































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