esperanza (m. amador)
in progress
When I first met you
You were in the middle.
I was just past the crest, although it is like me to think so.
Either way somewhere around that point in time we both descended.
In the arc of it, you came down much faster. (I think I might have been frozen at 75 for a few years) but still…we landed here:
clear eye to clear eye.
You might not know that when I first met you, I thought you were full of yourself. Your inclusive exclusivity was so…irritating, maybe because it was like hearing my own voice on a tape recorder in the future. So obvious…'Who couldn't think that way?'… 'Don't claim to be "what's next" when I'm in the audience already thinking 'what's next?'…
But then…
like three planets in orbit…
everything turned and faced a new way.
…I would have forgotten all about that, if we had never met again.
But we did, and this next time…
was…actually…
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✦esperanza
