What we have 
is what I 
want have always 
wanted but never 
knew how to 
get looking at 
you sleeping and 
remembering yesterday and 
yesterday’s yesterday all
I feel is 
the shadows of 
laughter still softly 
rocking my body 
this is what 
happiness with two 
who have been 
through the there
and back is

Now I know 
what love can 
be having been 
absent from it
love isn’t sex
love is knowledge 
paired with understanding 
and compassion adding 
in loads and 
loads of laughter 
stirred in with 
glances glowing and 
gentle giggles and 
this is what 
I now know 
love to be 

And we looked 
at art and 
each other and 
and had lunch 
and talked about 
life with each 
other and laughed 
and grew even 
closer to each 
other we’d always 
been very close 
but today after 
yesterday tomorrow 
looks better still 
years time and 
distance means nothing 

My heart is full 
but that’s not where
its beauty is found 
where its beauty lies 
is in its cracks 
for that is heartbreak
and only heartbreak can 
give a patina to 
and also strength to 
a heart that’s loved 

Love is a
fools pursuit it
makes one vulnerable 
and it hurts 
that is love 
that is past
love that is 
present does none 
of those love 
that is present 
is simply there
absent of any 
memory of any 
love ever before