It wasn’t just the dancing.
It wasn’t just your arms around me when we danced.
It was my hand enfolded in yours,
as you held it close against your heart
and turned us around the dance floor.
It was the smile in your green eyes
as you gazed down at my face lifted to yours.
It was the Love radiating between us…
The intimacy palpable between us,
The vibrant energy lighting us on fire.
All this, that I miss more than any words in any language might express.
All of that, every bit of that Love that shone so intensely between us, even 24 years after I opened the door to your knock and gazed upon you for the first time, clad in your uniform.
I’ve taken that bright light of Love and tucked it into my heart.
All that Love you had for me,
I took it and molded it seamlessly into the Love I had and have for you.
That Love that was, and is, a force to be reckoned with,
It’s a magnificent fire burning in me,
Spurring me on relentlessly, even as I stumble and fall.
Even as I force myself to stand again.
This Love, as strong as the Love that shimmered between us,
As you held my hand, clasped in yours, against your heart.
Dancing us into eternity…
This Love, stronger now, even, than it was when you guided me around the dance floor…
This Love that you left for me,
Me.
You.
Us.
Me, with the power of two,
Into the spaces of eternity~