i knew i loved you

because in the beautiful places i used to go to be alone,

on the edges of maps and beyond the dawn and inside my open skull

i found that suddenly, these places were oddly lonely, that without you

they were empty; forests were wide and silence was ringing and my mouth filled

with the ways i could tell you about the color of green that trees make when they’re

watching someone fall for something new

i knew i loved you because all of my secrets want to crawl out of

their hiding places and curl up next to you.

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