You are an integral part of this world,
an important piece
of a greater whole.

For we are, all of us, each,
the universe,
one vast perception,
one single story
aware of itself through our many eyes

each pair, a fractal,
like countless faces
of a changing crystal

each side reflecting back, always,
a different sliver
of what it means to exist Here,
to be alive.

And the light you shine back in this world
is never unnoticed,
for even in this ocean
of fractured perceptions,
there is only one that is you.

And while you are here,
you will touch the lives, constantly,
of all those around you.
Seeding ripples all the time
that grow into waves you never see

and in this wild, living network
you are loved by so many, and so much,
and when you are gone,
I promise,
all of this will be missing something

When we fall in love
it is not with one person,
but the world

and when we hold them,
we are wrapping our arms
around our favorite part

There is love here,
in uncertainty

in sleepless nights,

in the eternity that spans
each moment, to the next

because of you

I have never been more aware
of the turning of the universe
than right now, Here
in these moments.

And I cannot be aware of its turning
without the realization
that I, too, turn with it.

That we are,
all of us,
spinning

ever irreversibly forward

Things don’t exist just because we choose to believe in them. There’s a whole world out there that doesn’t flex to our perceptions of it, and I’d like to know it better. The truth, outside myself.

If I make up my mind now I may never get any real answers

I suppose
the thought of you came across my stage,
and I haven’t yet had the strength
to send it away