Proof of Us

Breathing you in

as though the room held none;

my lungs made sudden claim

to all the air you were.

A kiss

so still

it startled breath;

I, as snow arrests the bird;

lived on what you left behind;

a miracle

conferred,

I parted,

just to test the world

(It failed -

most perfectly)

for nothing else

could teach my chest

such vast necessity.

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Love