You walked into my life without warning
When I had turned my back on wanting a lover and instead searched for the impossible, for something magical
and then had given up on either.
You are not mine and I am not yours.
I cannot call our love by any name because it would be too little,
To begin to describe, what it’s like
To feel what I do
Our love came without a start, end or place to go to
To have felt you had always been here, in just the first seconds alone with you.
To feel like I’ve known you since a beginning we’ve never had, I know is simply not possible
Your eyes have healed me when I’ve looked in them,
To touch your hands scares me still
Because I feel like they’ve been a part of mine forever
I don’t know how or why I feel any of these things for you
How we’ve healed beyond recognition in such a short period
I don’t know what to do with our miracle
But just like I know the trees will always grow without anyone asking them to
Or how the sun will always know how to rise without anyone knowing where or when it began to
I know I will always love you
No matter how many times our days may set
My love for you will always be here through cold, warm and every season
without any explanation
Because it has never had and will never need one to
-Amira Hatoum