"Unnatural"

It’s that it felt so natural!
There was no effort,
no trying to make us fit.
You fit me
like we were meant to be,
like when a mouth opens to breathe,
it happened that naturally.
My smile came with ease
as long as you were near me.

My stiff persona
softened and fell
and all that I hid came spilling out
like small diamonds.
No need to guard
anything
as you saw me silly and giddy
(such a relief
to finally release).

Even our bodies,
one with the other,
coincided so that
where one left off,
the other began,
so that
to separate them
was unthinkable.

That’s why it stays with me
after a matter of months—
a long string of days
where you come and go from me
in the vapors of memory.
It had all come so naturally…
I still can’t believe
you’ve left no reprieve
from being alone,
without you.