Karmic Circles

It’s as if we already love each other
Not the type of love you see in movies
The “happily ever after” that makes
One smile in anticipation that it just might
Be theirs someday

No, it’s a different love
A bond between two spirits
Alike in so many ways
Yet, separate from each other
Becoming complete
Through the inspiration
Of each other’s existence

It’s as if we’ve already known
This would happen
A connection
Seemingly one-sided years ago
Now more than imagination
Could’ve ever hoped
Yet, still not complete
Because there’s more
Waiting
For us to say
“Yes” to

A never-broken connection
Even as
Today has reversed
Yesterday’s roles

Me, no longer
The wide-eyed
Adult-in-training
Full of star struck
Admiration for
Part illusion
And part realness

You, no longer
Untouchable
A grown-up child
Acting out
A substitute dream
Finding the way
To an unspoken heart

Now it’s me,
A grown-up child
Releasing substitute dreams
For a rediscovered, unspoken heart
Only touchable, you think,
By my inspiring words
Which return the hope
And influence you once
Instilled in the spirit
Behind them

You,
That adult
Still in-training
Wide-eyed
And perhaps
Even a little star struck
With the manifestation
Of the illusion
You once helped portray