The Radiance

Loving you feels like breathing in sunlight after a long night,

effortless, yet endlessly profound,

as though my body had always known

this rhythm,

this warmth,

this steady unfolding of us.

Every glance you give

unthreads the shadows I used to wear,

and even the simplest touch—

your fingers grazing mine,

your laughter falling into my chest,

remakes the world

as though it has only now begun.

But then,

the turn comes,

unexpected and unmistakable.

I realize it isn’t just the way you light the dark,

not only how you mend the silence

or soften the edges of my restless mind.

It’s that you call me forward,

into something larger than desire,

something fierce,

unyielding,

a devotion that teaches me

love is not found,

it is created,

moment by moment,

breath by breath.

And in that making,

in that shared becoming,

I know the truth of us:

we are not bound by time,

nor by distance,

but by the simple, miraculous fact

that my soul recognizes itself

in you.