Before Love

 

 

Before love put its hand in my pocket, its leg in the air,

I wasn't ready to eat in the dark.

I wasn't in the loop, thought I shouldn't be.

I hadn't met you, stupid me.

 

As if I had heard you were coming, ahead

I saw a kindness to space where your face could appear.

Before I could have said I knew! you had known me forever instead.

Our fingers moved. Our two broken hearts made four.

 

Our tiny urgent voices: Let me die first.

But it was before love that my god was knowing such shinola.

Then I saw what knowing got me.

I was home. I got you.