Just know that

I cared

As I will after we are separated as well

You will still cross my mind

You will still hold a place in my heart

Forever

If we never meet again, I’ll know

you can’t be shorn from my heart.

You thawed my hardened iced soul as

we danced together on frozen stars,

my breath inhaled in exuberant joy.

Our heat tiptoed in waves of silence

at the edge of our beginning, circling

our essence in naked words as we

patched our outer shells together,

reveling in intoxicated moonlit dust,

surrendering in place of long grass blades

navigating by stars in your moonlit eyes.

Clouds rolled in like sheep across azure vaults

in steamed vapor of our passionate breaths.

Our eyes locked in two-step through the heavens

tied together in silk laces of love embraced.

Our love remains in our ageless thoughts but

we’ll have to meet in our dreams as we sleep,

once rosy roads have parted in dusty endings,

our residual bones fluttering in the breezes.

If we never meet again

    I won't ask why

       I won't cry 

          I won't want to die

              I won't say goodbye

If we never meet again

    You won't steal my heart

       Leave me in the dark

           Say we must part

If we never meet again

    I'll be able to see

        I'll think about me

            Won't beg on my knee

                 I will be free

If we never meet again

    I'll be able to choose

       I won't have to lose

           I'll stop loving you.

If we never meet again...

The sun will still shine.

The wind will still blow.

The birds will still call.

The cat will still want to be fed.

And yet, if we never meet again...

My heart will be torn.

My mind will be consumed.

My thoughts will be full of you.

My life will cease to be whole.

So please, if we never meet again...

Remember the days at the beach.

Remember the talks we had about paradoxes.

Remember the boy drama we went through together.

Remember the fact that we'll be friends no matter what.

If we never meet again...

The world will still go on.

I'll miss you always.

I hope you'll remember me.

And one day, we'll both be one.

If we never meet again,

remember - 

we met.

And in that meeting,

we changed.

Each of us added to the mosaic of the other's life

a tile,

or a stone,

or a small glittering something.

Perhaps,

we gave assurance,

or lent strength,

or inspired joy.

Maybe,

the worn red converse you let me borrow

were actually the golden Talaria,

carrying me swiftly toward my best tomorrow.

In a febrile haze,

you once called me 

Artemis, 

mistaking the moon's glow

for a halo,

believing that I would,

could,

protect you.

I promise I tried.

If I have not succeeded,

then I pray

I have at least helped you

transform the broken little

used-to-be's

into a work of art

as beautiful,

and competeless,

and authentic

as your soul.

I know you have made me an artist.

Did I return the favor? 

You were an angel,

I was a fallen...

From the the start you were heaven

And I was nothing but an alien...

But through those boundaries

Though those what's & if's

You held my hand tightly

And I held yours so lightly

But your wings let you soar above high

And mine could not even touch the sky

From the start we were never meant to be

But for those few moments you made me glee

If we never meet again my love

I want you to know I cherished you like a dove

If we never meet again

Know that I'll be always there

There in your heart

As you are in mine

There up the sky

And here in the ground

If we never meet again

I will live the rest of my life in pain

For you are now the reason I have to live

Before I never felt I had anything to give

Your smile showed me the light

The moon span around you like a satellite

Everything you touch seems to come alive

Without you I doubt that I could survive

Your simple words resonate and echo inside my mind

Before hearing you speak my heart was confined

Now it is free to love and I offer it to you

For when I look into your eyes I see everything as new

So I will search for you until my dying day

All I hope is that you do not turn me away

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If we never meet again

then let me hold you for a while, 

so that I'd remember the way 

your hands wrap around my tiny waist.

Give me a minute more 

to take in the smell of your perfume

that I never really liked. 

I want to listen to your heartbeat

like it's the soundtrack to my life. 

If we never meet again,

let me look at you once more, 

so I can memorize every single freckle, 

and that lopsided smile of yours. 

Look me in the eye,

so I know what color yours are. 

I want you to ruffle my hair

one last time

before you go. 

If we never meet again, 

I'd make sure you know, 

how much I hate that shirt you're wearing.

I'll tell you all my dirty little secrets,

and you would tell me yours. 

I'd thank you and tell you 

I love you. 

Then, I'd promise to live each day,

as if we'd never meet again.