1:09 AM

You’re eyes widen and flutter, head shaking
Trying to find that island of awake that lives on the back of that giant sea turtle in the never-ending sea of sleep that is your life.
This is how I will remember you.

Talking in circles—no, that was me
Talking in tangents that dart back and forth and never come back around and meet up again, zig-zaging across and around the imaginary canvas of our conversation, sometimes crossing but never touching
This is how I will remember you.

Half awake but more asleep in the darkness of early morning's cacoon when in the joy at the sight of each other we couldn’t decide to celebrate by sleeping in or having sex, inevitably choosing the later to the dismay of our sleep-cycles
This is how I will remember you.

Trying way too hard to catch all the words from your lips and keep them all trapped inside my head at once so that I could re-align them perfectly again in my ever feeble attempts to comprehend what you are trying to express instead of just letting the feelings wash over me like waves in music -usurping my body with its rhythmic and elated relentlessness
This is how I will remember you.

Breaking away from my Gondry-esque dreams in the middle of the night realizing something has gone awry only to be comforted by the sensation of you coiling your arm around my waist and pulling me into you- our bodies fallowing the same winding curve of eachother, bringing my body back home and the universe back into its glorious ordered chaos
This is how I will remember you

The warning flashing in your eyes as I fell deeper and deeper into a world of fantastical love that you would not follow me into
This is how I will remember you.

50 years from now toasting to all those who I have loved before and still have a reserved seat for in a tiny, rarely seen corner of my heart with a beautiful view bearing your name
This is how I will remember you.