We Both Knew
When we first met
no fireworks went off
but there was that one day
when suddenly
I touched your hand
and something awoke within
It wasn’t much longer
before I was physically suffering
a baffling burning urgency
to tell you that I love you
Stalling techniques exhausted
only to discover
how inexplicably you felt it too
all so soon and so surreal
As if…
at some instinctive level
we’d been in some distant past
a couple torn apart
by some pointless war
or other disaster
How else to explain it
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on January 8, 2018
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