Arriver

Today

My heart

Lost its rhythm

For a moment

Not like fear

Not like pain

Like a bird forgetting the pattern of its wings mid-flight

Startled by the sudden awareness of the sky

I told you, just that

And you

You did not question the sky

You became it

You held me

The way gravity holds the earth

Without force

Without permission

Without asking if it should

And my body

Which had been speaking in fragments

Fell back into a language

Older than thought

But you

You do not stay

You are not made of staying

You are like tide

Like wind

Like something

That belongs to movement

And I

I do not ask

The ocean

To become a shore

I have learned

What it is to live

Without arrival