retrocausality waltz

That first time we met

I caught myself recalling

The times before, where we kissed

in the sunshine,

And twirled ‘neath the moonlight

in a giddy daze in the sand.

That first time we met

I knew you well, your secrets and

funny little anecdotes

you shared, in the nighttime,

pressed to me, your lips forming

our first hello, at a festival

simultaneous to 
the kiss you give me now.

That first time we met

I knew the nervousness

Trying to invent reasons

that you might stay, 

standing in an entryway,

stammering at beauty.

That first time we met,

a flash of your naked body,

Hair falling about your smile,

your eyes meet mine, our bodies

intertwined in a perfection

like I’ve never known

All in that first time we met-

but I had to hurry,

get to the next destination that I

didn’t realize yet you'd be-

and I miss your smile, your laugh,

your funny little anecdotes, your kisses- 
all the strange magic of them-

they affected me, 

that first time we met,
today.