The empty room stillness 

Washed over me like 

A cool lake in the summer 

The smell of raindrops on pavement 

A breeze rustling through my hair 

The first taste of a raspberry

Sweet, cool freedom 

Holy road we are on tonight

As the music swells, I dance 

No inhibitions 

No lover who has been asleep 

To see me and ask if he should worry 

That I seem unraveled

When all I am doing 

Is feeling for the first time 

In front of another person

The expectations we hold for one another 

She says on speaker phone 

Are unfair 

Learned distrust

Not enough kindness 

We hold these truths to be self-evident 

So why can’t we fucking listen

Open our eyes to see 

The vastest sky above us 

A field outstretched further than my own two eyes 

Can picture 

And you, running 

Looking unraveled to the untrained eye

But I know you 

I am dancing alongside you 

On old wooden floors that creak with understanding

We are alive