just like everything new and exciting,

one day you just…

showed up.

you appeared. and so suddenly, at that.

you had this quiet glow about you,

something unnoticeable to someone

without an eye for it.

as i got to know you, i started to feel

like you were an enigma.

you were this boundless, free-

spirited figure that had somehow

wandered into my life that was

chiseled in stone. 

i was so afraid;

i feared the unknown, i feared

the future, i feared what would

become of me if i let myself

fall into your spinning world

of uncertainty.

but the spinning became something

i welcomed, with my arms wide open,

as if you were twirling me in the center

of a ballroom,

you held my hand the entire way through,

keeping me on my feet when i started

to stumble.

and although i may not be perfect at it,

i think i can say i've learned quite well

the moves, and rhythms, of your

dance of life.