Here, in a cuddle. <br /> <br />Here, in the making <br />of a meal...or...love. <br /> <br />Here, in countless conversations <br />idle chit-chats <br /> <br />sprinkled throughout our day <br />to day <br /> <br />here, <br />in the bric-a brac of us <br /> <br />we exchange our pasts <br /> memories that made us <br /> <br />the secret facts of us <br />that make us...us. <br /> <br />The we <br />we are now. <br /> <br />loving <br />each other. <br /> <br />The very this & thats <br />that lead me to you and you to I <br /> <br />and I unwilling to change <br />an iota...an inch <br /> <br />a pain...a loss...a grief <br /> <br />in case <br />my life didn’t flow <br />into yours <br /> <br />creating some alternative universe <br />where we would have missed each other <br /> <br />by an iota...an inch <br />a pain…a loss...a grief. <br /> <br />Here now <br />in the here & now of us <br /> <br />the gift <br />of love <br /> <br />given to us <br /> <br />that we <br />like a little flame <br /> <br />carry carefully <br />into the future <br /> <br />that awaits us <br /> <br />each each <br />other’s gift <br /> <br />each little flame <br />of love <br /> <br />lighting the way <br />for the other <br /> <br />footsteps <br />& heartbeats <br /> <br />rhyming <br />in time.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/footsteps-heartbeats/
