You arrived like something precious I wasn’t meant to hold
a fleeting warmth that brushed my life with truth and gentle flame
I felt your presence settle in the places worn and old
and wished the world were softer when your fragile heartbeat came
But timing carved its boundaries where love could barely fit
turning promises to memories before they could unfold
Your tenderness was something far too beautiful to quit
yet circumstance was colder than the stories we were told
If life had let us linger in that moment’s quiet glow
perhaps we’d trace our future in a line unbroken still
I’d keep the version of us time refused to let me know
and hold your trembling courage with a patient open will
Maybe the next life offers what this moment never kept
a chance to live the softness that we buried as we wept
You were the moment I almost kept…
and someday love
I will