Page 3 of In Another Time

You don’t realize, do you?

How your love fills me.

How it moves through me,

Like oxygen to blood.

Without you,

I’m breathless,

Choking on the emptiness of what could have been.

There’s a stillness when you’re not here,

Like the world forgot to breathe.

I gasp for you in my solitude,

Reaching, clawing,

Like a drowning man fighting for just one more inhale.

You’re my atmosphere,

The steady rhythm of in and out,

Keeping me afloat in a sea of chaos.

And when you’re near,

It’s not just survival.

It’s life.

Deep, rich, intoxicating.

Your laughter is the wind in my sails,

Your voice the breeze on my face.

And your love?

It’s the storm,

Fierce and untamed,

Blowing away everything that doesn’t matter.

But I know,

Even air can’t be taken for granted.

One moment you’re here,

The next, I’m gasping,

Grasping at a memory of what kept me alive.

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