Sunday

Today, you touched me.
A simple slip of your hand, caressing my skin, and then as if by memory finding mine.
I've never experienced something so natural with a stranger.
It was as if we'd been lovers for a lifetime - so familiar, so normal.
Your smile was captivating, real, raw. As I watched you walk away up the stairs, I knew something had just happened; it was there, bright and plain in your beautiful, smiling eyes.

In that instant, we both forgot the pain that was so separate and isolating, and allowed ourselves to relax again. Your rhythm matched mine, our heartbeats were one, and for a moment I remembered why life is worth living. I stopped thinking, stopped reacting ... just felt.

I have never felt so at peace, so understood by another human being.

You and I must have been very close, in another life.

Life flies by at alarming speeds, but today, for one moment, time stood still.
Less than five seconds changed my life.