Love

Free form musings on love

Sometimes i think relationships are like a chain.

A chain made of those ineffable moments, those moments which have no significance to anyone else but end up becoming something more than the sum of their parts;

like a shared glance, a subconscious private joke between two people or even the faintest caress, a moment which makes you realize how much more there is at play in this great big world than we realize.

In every relationship between two people there are moments which make you fathom that we are not the ones steering the ship, that we are all some omniscient creator's playthings and as they say in movies, we are all just in it for the ride

That all happened one night last June.

That was the moment you first put your arms around me and that was when i knew.

We were nervous at first, you touching your hair every now and then and me fixing my glasses or playing with my hands.

We talked about so many things,from the usual stuff people talk about. what we do, where we are from to some stuff which not so many people would find interesting but for people like us is like water to a thirsty man

I don't remember what we talked about or why we laughed the way we did or how i came to love those high beautiful sounds you make whenever i mention bill clinton.

I remember you asked me to dance and i remember sheepishly saying that i couldn't dance to save my life but you dragged me to the dance floor anyway

We didn't get too close at first;

just swaying to the beat of some usher song or maybe it was lil wayne. i never could tell hip hop artists apart.

but then i remember the DJ started playing a slow song.

maybe it was Adele, maybe it was someone else but you drew me to you or i drew you to me or maybe the universe drew us to each other

We put our arms around each other and let the music take us away and mere words cannot describe the revelation i felt when that happened.

sometimes people say that falling in love is like a rush that you don't know whats going on and your head is swimming at a hundred miles an hour and you don't know what you are doing

but i don't know about them but for me it was a feeling of coming home, of coming back to your favorite spot on planet earth after a long and exhausting day.

when we collided, i knew my place in the universe and it was with you. you are the only port in the storm for me

 

Reviews

[Barbara Walker]

I love the way you describe the ending. You said it for me and that's the best a writer can do for a reader. I told my boyfriend, "Being with him is like being home and home means everything to me."