to gaze upon you

You tilt your head back and laugh,
and something within me lightens.

Your energy reaches me before you do,
warm, abundant, easy to absorb into.
The blue in your eyes darkens
as if the sea itself has darkened them.
Your skin, sun-browned and lived in,
holds the quiet proof of devotion:
to movement,
to strength,
to staying.

You move like someone who has made peace
with your own body.
With your own mind.

And mine responds without negotiation.
Delight, immediate and honest.
I laugh with you and feel it,
that familiar, faithful tug
love has on the heart.

My human.
My person.
My one true love.

The years have been kind to us,
not because they were soft,
but because we kept choosing each other.
We built a home out of connection,
out of trust and truth,
and we made tender life between us.

Let me walk beside you, day after day.
Let me witness you becoming
wiser, older, more yourself.
Let us watch our children grow
into families of their own.

Let me keep finding you,
again and again,
and have the pleasure of feeling you close,
all the days of my life.

@sacredsoulhood