It was something in his voice

That strummed my heart strings like a guitar

The song it played triggered centuries of longing

Of yearning and wanting

All of a sudden something familiar awoke in me

In another lifetime, I had known you

In another lifetime, you were most surely mine, and I yours

Because somehow I remembered you as if I’d known you all my life

As though you were the one I’d been waiting for.

One call.

It took just one call and your boyish laugh

Something in that beautiful laughter-- heard over the course of weeks,

Something in your eyes and the way they kissed me…

The little girl in me remembered interlocking hands with the boy you once were

Somewhere, someplace, somehow in a time where memories stay hidden

Parallel lives we’ve lived my love, parallel lives, as I finally realized that

All my childhood hurt, my traumas and my ordeals were a reflection of yours

We were worlds apart and yet very together, across the oceans yet within reach and still so close

Same struggles, same aches, one in essence, one in love, one in kindness, one in grace

In tenderness of heart, a passion for the broken we share

It was like looking into the mirror

You were that one I wrote about in journals

That one who visited me in dreams bearing corsages of hope

I dreamed of you and knew that someday I’d find you

And I did.

We did.

We found each other.

Swept up in raptures of passion and comfort, in gratitude and awe

In understanding and knowing,

Two beautiful souls awash with love and destined to meet, met.

But like a raving storm of tsunami-c proportions

Such a magnificent collision

Could only result in one thing,

Dust…

Copyright © 2015 by Bernice Angoh