To Finally Know Love

two solitudes
facing the same direction
built this day together 
handing each other the shards of our histories
resting now in the present, beautifully suspended

you are the calm at the center of the storm
the slow dawning of your smile in the morning
the steady rhythm of your breath beside me
in the intimacy of the evening
i hold you close to finally find peace

and here, in the dark
we gather up the love we saved 
add it to our own private union
and in the quiet listening at the end of the day
the last light is the one reflected in your eye

in awe at the beauty of my sleeping lover
in the sacredness of this ordinary intimacy
you are my night wind, my morning dew, my evening prayer—
you appeared—
and my soul finally knows love