once, I was an ant by your feet
you a mango leaf
I breathed a million breaths
to stay near your eyelashes
do you remember the flutter
when I was a monarch butterfly
and you a yellow rose?
a thousand stars died
the moon shrank, and blossomed again
even the Earth twirled on its axis
I saw you
did you forget the day it wouldn’t rain?
clouds stalled that May afternoon
I didn’t climb on the bus
you stood at the corridor
it’s been ten years since I touched your hand
snow melts from the water cans in our backyard
blades of grass know about spring
I think we are meeting already