"If I Know You Like I Think I Do" -a poem

Happy Friday the Thirteenth, my little lovebirds. For today's post, I want to share with you a poem I wrote over a year ago. It speaks of the familiarity I felt with Nick upon first meeting him. It was as if I had known him my whole life, as if he had been there for every major event, even though for most of our lives we never even knew the other existed. This poem is about the heart overpowering the mind.

If I Know You Like I Think I Do

If you’re wearing that same old ragged sweater

The one with the frayed sleeves 

That you can hardly go a day without

Then I’m talking to you

I’m talking to you

Because, I think, out of all the faces

You’ll be the one to truly understand

I recall that day so well

I was young, my hands were small

The ice cream melted on the table while I waited

There was panic on their faces

I think you know that feeling of helplessness

I remember when

I rode the ferris wheel for the first time

The big one

The one overlooking the ocean

I finally felt free, the way the breeze danced on my skin

I imagine you being there, too, feeling oh, so free

There was that time on the dark winding road

The rain fell more rapidly than I was used to

My friends at home watching TV while my sister and I 

Held a one-car street race with the roads at their very worst

Then we were airborne

Then we weren’t, but then we were again, and

You know exactly what I’m talking about

The best of them all was the night

I was standing just close enough to the sea

The water racing towards my toes, then slowly inching back home

I felt so small, the way the world was looking at me

The only one on the shoreline

Under all of the brightest stars

You know better than anyone that this world

Holds far too much beauty for any of us to ever conceive

I’m talking to you because

I was here, and you were there, but

You were always feeling everything that I was feeling.

I hope some of you can relate, or understand and appreciate what I was trying to say through writing this. The heart brings people together in an incredible fashion. It intertwines and syncs two lives to one another. Give me some feedback, friends!

Bri