Just as afterglow lingers for a while where the light has already gone,
every disappearance leaves its traces behind

All those coincidences I created simply to catch a glimpse of you,
the footsteps that chose the longer road despite already knowing the destination
only later did I realize those small deviations were gravity itself, tilting me toward a single person
There were many days when I wished those moments,
the moments in which an instant became eternity,
would remain by my side forever
Because the reason for your existence was the measure of my own mass
we were the laws of physics that existed, for a time,
to explain one another

Sometimes,
when I look back on the fullest season of my life,
your shadow arrives before the landscape does

If someone were to ask when my season of greatest bloom was,
I would not be able to name a season ,,, ,,

Because if I were asked to speak of that season,
it would feel less like naming a time of year and more like pronouncing a proper noun

Tracing the nearly impossible phenomenon of an instant overcoming time,
I reverse-engineer my memories,
only to arrive at the same conclusion
it was love, after all