You said you did not know what love is.
A burst of sunlight on a dark day, I thought.
And if I said the L-word first, paralysis
kept you silent. But one night you caught
me by surprise. I heard it clearly like
a bell ringing. I felt it up and down
my spine. Such simple syllables can strike
a blow for rapture, turn everything around.
“Now we can move together with a single
beat,” I thought. “And speak our hearts without
restraint. And when we walk together, mingle
with all those who no longer doubt,
joining, like two arriving fashionably
late, love's open and festive company.”