I’m not sure I believed in soul mates,
that there was one person
with whom you could feel so comfortable
so compatible
so connected
– like a tether through the universe.
If I believed in past lives
I would say we’ve met before
that we’re old souls
who have danced this dance.
We were drifting:
not searching for each other
not aimless either
growing, preparing, reaching potential
readying ourselves;
God once told me the right man needed
time to be ready for me
– I’m a lot to handle.
And I needed to be ready too
to learn enough for him
to be relaxed enough for intense intimacy
of the emotional kind.
I didn’t know what a soulmate was
supposed to look like,
at least not for me,
but here you are
and
although I didn’t think I believed in soul mates before
I’m pretty sure you’re mine.