The universe keeps listening to me. Like it knows what I need. On a Monday I felt all the stars. Her eyes like tinny black marbels, filled with sorrow and yet, a glow. The pain she carries doesn't weight her down. It makes her float. In a world of superficial conversations and individualism, her touch connects me to the universe. It's like she dances through thin air. She sweeped into my life with a short "yes, please". No time to waste. No texts. Just a certainty that we had to meet. Neither of us knew if we would follow through. Yet here we are sharing words sitting on the grass. Here we are learning each other's world. Each other's pain. So many crossings. I listen and our fingers intertwine when she tells me she's been there. It's like our fingers belong like that. As if we're old friends, she comes to stay. To wake up by myside. I dreamed of making coffee for a beautiful woman someday. Kissing her neck and hugging her from behind. Suddenly it's her, a birdie girl but with a different letter, standing on my kitchen, laying on my bed. I know she's in pain. Or worse, in numbness. But I know I made her remember what's it like to feel. To experience. To connect. And I know that I just gave her some ground, the standing and walking was all her work. Strenght. From the words stuck on her throat comes her story and her sweet, sweet voice. Just like a singing bird I finally hear her in the distance. Timid, yet hers. Timid, yet alive. Timid, yet filling up the room with melody. Timid, yet Robyn. I said I would never rush things, but with her we aren't rushing. We're swimming in an open ocean, carefully holding on to eachother to face the waves. We drift apart, yet we remain connected. I wish I could see her face everyday. I wish I could hear her singing everyday. I wish I could take away all the pain and watch her float through the streets, as she does, yet painlessly. I am me and she is an entire universe. Awakening, she says. I say let's lay down and sleep, her head on my chest, her soft voice on my mind. Not even scared, because she sets me free. We set each other free. Finally somewhere I can breath.
