Before the light remembered
How to become the day
I wandered through a room
That had no walls to keep
An empty chair was waiting
For someone not yet gone
Nothing had a name
Everything already knew
A voice without a speaker
Called me by no word
Still
I understood
In the almost
In the not yet
Every ending
Learning how to begin
Every shadow
Borrowing its light
Everything becoming
Something it remembered
The rivers chose their silence
Before they learned to flow
Mountains dreamed of gravity
Before they became stone
A window faced a landscape
No sky had ever filled
Time was only breathing
Never counting anything
Even the stars
Seemed to remember home
I watched tomorrow
Fold itself
Into yesterday
No one seemed surprised
Love had already passed
Our hearts
Were only
Catching up
In the almost
In the not yet
Every answer
Hidden in the first breath
Every life
Already travelling
Before it found a name
We call it beginning
The universe
Calls it remembering
When I awoke
The room remained
But someone had crossed the silence before me
You looked at me
As though the world
Had never learned
To let us go