Love at First Reunion, An Eternal Prose

I knew thee in the space between time.

We filled each other with our ideas and the image of what we each could be.
We understood each other’s desires and found them pleasing,
but our hopes paved a road on which we could only reflect.
That untouchable road filled us with desire to be more.

To be.

And we struggled, because we knew that even our most ardent cogitation
could only fill a space reserved solely for musings:
Imaginings.
For all.
By all.
Individually.
Collectively.
Removedly.

We longed for sensation of any kind, but so much more to experience each other.
Truly. Experience. Each other.

And when you became you, way over there? Two eye blinks before, I had just become me, right over here.

Our thoughts were finally our own to keep or to share;
and these bodies, imperfect as they are, we could command and control.
We sensed our selves, and as much of the world as we could conquer.
We were drunk with the power of it all.

And when we came down from our sensational high, we realized we had gained our privacy and
maintained our agency, but still found our hearts wanting for each other.

And though our selves began fields and mountains apart, eventually, only blocks came between us.
Somehow, through decades of time and traversing tall buildings, after overcoming Ocean waves, barren fields, and backtracking down dead-end streets, we found each other.

Some claim love at first sight.
But I knew, the first time I perceived you through these imperfect turquoise eyes,
that it wasn’t my first time knowing you.

Two old souls communed again, but this time sensation propelled us toward feeling a familiar ease,
an elation for having conquered some mysterious thing.
But your hands tangled in my hair while your lips part softly against mine
still feels so much better than I ever imagined.

Shaunna

Jon Stewart Mill, whose name I am sure I just misspelled, supported a view that all things, people, and ideas existed in a spirit form before appearing on a physical level. This poem embodies that view.