I miss you
and it feels like filling your lungs
all the way
as if to blow up a balloon
but there’s no balloon

I miss you
I miss you
I miss you

We will be gone some day
but I want to be alive next to you
so much right now

because what a wonder
to have found you
whilst we are both alive

and have you love me back
I love you back

Oh to write about it
as if I still had it

You said you feel you are more mine
than you are your mothers
and I
I feel more yours
than I’ve ever been hers

how I wish we could meet in the middle

you said my name
is like a house in your mouth

your name is like a house in mine
we live there
soft and slow
and we have time

I carry that feeling
not loud
not heavy
just close
I carry it like a prayer
I say without sound

we are not what we came from
we are what we became
in each other’s mouths

Oh I have met you
before
not just in this life
I know the shape of your soul
like a song I was born humming
you are not new to me
you are home

and when you say you hope
to never lose me
as if I’m something
that could slip away

I say
but love
I am yours
I always was
long before the words
before the touch
before time even thought
to bring us together
I was already
on my way to you

I call you my lid
the match to my flame
a rhythm that whispers
the sound of your name

you say you need space
time to just be
but baby the stars still shine
when they’re light-years
away from me

you have one million wings
with me
no promises tied
just love that stands patient
with nothing to hide
& if healing means distance
then take every mile
I’ll wait at the edge
of your shadow
and hope I’ll meet you again
one day
even just
to see you smile

because soulmates don’t vanish
they circle around
& even in silence
your echo is sound
so take all the time
that your spirit might need
I’ll still be your garden,
your shelter, your seed

and if you come back
like I hope that you do
I’ll still be the
me
that’s in love with the
you.