Familiar Stranger

You’re like a breath of fresh air…

Even though you’re familiar to me something about you always feels so new.

Every time we meet,

your eyes smile when we greet

one another.

You are familiar to me

But your arrival still peaks my curiosity

What is it about you that always feels so new?

I sit and ponder…

It feels like the gentle caress of the air that enters my nostrils with each breath that I take.

Your subtle power is the reason I am alive inside.

I’m refreshed as I close my eyes and

With each breath I am reminded of the blissful nostalgia that was once and still

Us.

In and out

We breathe each other

In and out

Of one another’s lives

Being present and absent

All within the same breath…