We, the Water

an ode to how love can be both distance and arrival.

You and I are rain and river,
two bodies of water
finding home in each other.

Somewhere between destiny and serendipity,
this confluence baptises us
as lovers.

But how could we not be?

When we are willing
to surrender even the things we do not have,
and rain and river
flow separately—
but reach the ocean
as one.