I lost my centre
The day I met you
I was in the room amid a crowd
You were standing outside
Smoking
Our eyes met briefly
And held
Across a sea of time, a tide of centuries
Of all the parties and all the places and all the people
You had to choose this moment
To walk into my heart
I lost my centre
I tore my gaze away
Impolite – staring at a stranger
Unbidden, my eyes returned to seek you
You were still looking at me steadily, quizzically
Have we met?
Do we know each other?
Yes, my love. Lives ago
I looked away resolutely
Fighting what was to come
This moment that we had both been moving towards inexorably
Without turning
I knew when you came to stand behind me
The heat of your stare on my bare back
Scorching. Intense. Unflinching.
I lost my centre
I went back to my room
Curiously light
Inside of me, the change had begun already
I knew you would find me
Next morning, I came down to breakfast
There you were
My heart began its inexplicable song again
We did a dance of words
And all the while there was this thrumming
Betwixt us
Tangible…reach out, feel the electricity
We could not bear to be apart
You sat beside me, silent, contained
Softly singing to me
Your strong, hard thigh against me
Oh the feel, the touch, the sigh, the smile
I lost my centre
We sat on the beach
The sea with its rippling music
The sun began its descent
All purples and reds – the colours of our yesterday
I must go, I whispered
Stay, you implored. I have only just found you
You kissed my eyes, the merest whisper
Like a benediction
I lost my centre
And you became the epicentre
No end and no beginning
You and me that formed a separate being – Us
I came alive, I flowered, I bloomed
Under your touch
There was you in the morning
And you in the night
And you in all the hours in between that God made
Your name sang through my veins
The sound of your voice
Huge, silly smile on my face all day
Incandescent, tortured, aflame in your love
Fiery, fervent, fevered
Your touch
Every fibre of me was a-quiver, a-shiver
Magic must be allowed to remain whole
Why should you question, analyse
Do you not believe in shooting stars
Do you not trust the resonance between our souls
Explain, if you must, the taste of water
Reason, if you will, why you come alive when you
See me, touch me, hold me, feel me
Find the words to the song that your heart sings
And only my heart can hear
I lost my centre, I tell you
The day that I met you
