the unexpectedness of you

my love

the unexpectedness of you

when i had all but given up hope

and labeled myself a lost cause

and reconciled myself to my fate

a fate neither despised or admired

for you had become a dream

a thing that lived on in desires

and secret longings

but would stay an apparition

a shadow of my imagination

and i would remain here alone

then, the world shifted

and the planets aligned

 

and there you were

no longer a figment or false hope

a living breathing entity

willingly offering up your love

with no fear or reservation

just that deep seated knowledge that we had called out to each other

that distance and time were no measures for our love

and our souls had come home

locked to each other as perhaps they had always been

i did not need to see your eyes to know

for your voice betrayed you,

just like my own,

and the music of our pulses, racing for each other,

hummed loudly in my ears

its beat in ebbs and flows of bliss and storm and calm

it's no use explaining what language is inadequate to express

and so we use the word 'love' born out of necessity to lay claim to the crescendo of joy that rises

and it is not enough, cannot be enough

this small word cannot hold the magnitude of what is building

nor can it convey that which has had neither beginning nor end

it just is

so, my love,

the unexpectedness of you

becomes my hearts freedom

and you take my breath away every day just by mere existence

we give into the beauty of our souls collision

just freely embracing the gift of each other

no longer a dream, but reality

a desire realized, savored and recharged

forevermore entwined as the world saw fit to purpose