Of all the ways we are meant to love

You see me

Most in quiet times

Alone in a room

Whirring of a fan off balance

Dog barking way in the distance

To break the rhythmic pattern

I try to mimic the rise and fall

of your heartbeat

Concentration lost

And then found again

When the tha-thumping beats drown me

Into rest

Let the world be out there somewhere

Let it do all its things to one another

And in all the ways we are meant to love

Let us do so quietly

But just loud enough to appreciate

All the in between space and the no space

That is us together

In love

To Eli