Exhalation

• Before there was you
• Before there was you and your billowing laugh
• Your callused hands and crooked smile
• waiting for me at the end of the night
• like temptation drunk on cherry wine
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• Before there was the oak that introduced us
• Before there were the stars we claimed as ours
• Before love and wonder were forces we would never tame
• Before time had entered the fray
• Before there was the story of everything, waiting to unfold,
• Nothing was the only thing
• And that was enough for a universe.