loving and knowing

• i could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; i would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth, i would know him in death, at the end of the world.
• “it’s you,” i said, grinning foolishly.
  he looked up, and there was bright pleasure in his eyes.
  “i know,” he said.
• a surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. i will never leave him. it will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
• do you know? all i want is you. anything you do is alright, yes, it’s alright. do you know? all i want is… you.
• if we remember all this in thirty years’ time, we might laugh. but now – it’s heaven.
• “i promise you that, whatever happens to me in the future, however i may alter with the years, you i will never forget.”
  “thank you. you’re still my best friend.”
• i will not ask you why you were creeping, in some sad way i already know.
• when your hat is carried in the air, just so you can chase it, just so i can be there. this is how i know, this is what i see, this is love to me.
• but i knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss.

song of achilles // falsettos // spring awakening [forsyth translation] // like real people do // the light in the piazza // cardigan //