Your name slides into my mind consistently with an ease no one else’s ever has;
You live rent free with a gravitational force that’s inexplicable.
Safety is no longer a sense or a feeling with you around-
It’s an inevitability.
It’s an anchor that doesn’t announce itself the way feelings do;
It’s not loves rush or fears absence,
It’s the quiet where neither is needed.
And you-
With your ocean blue eyes and your lighthearted jokes;
Move through the world with such humble ease the same way the cells in my body have subtly decided that your arms are where I belong-
It’s almost a birthright.
Time stops the minute you cross the threshold of my front door;
You aren’t my sense of home-
You are a home that has never had to be proven.
My nervous system has grounded itself in you;
It’s finally exhaling.
Peace settled into my bones that night the feeling washed over me and ever since-
I’ve known.
I just know.
And everything in me has arranged itself around that.
