Knowing

Joyfully crowned with nothing but fulfillment
Time stood still
-as it tends to happen-
at the very instant when your eyes looked into mine
with that smile overflowing with incredulous mischievousness
caressing the depth of the moment
and making every instance thereafter about nothing but the now

And it was at that very first stoppage of time when I knew…
I just knew…
that I was going to love you
and
I knew…
I just knew
- as I always do -
that you were going to break my heart…
and I welcomed the imminent pain
-as I do every time-
for the sake of those wondrous encapsulated fragments of time

I am home.