vehemence

Live more than others today. Breathe in deep and take the oxygen into your lungs. Strain against the consraints of your ribcage. Today is your chance to experience life like you were taking a fraction of everyone else's. Make a stranger walking on the street your everything, for a moment. Give them your undivided attention. Look them in the eyes, then look through them. Make them feel naked. Now is the only time, grasp it, because it will become "then", or "that time". I love you now, this moment. I see flashes of infinate possibilities. I see you fumbling for the camera at our daughters graduation. It's been 20 years and you're still so beautifully ungraceful. I smile because it's around your neck. Some things have become so small, yet some have grown beyond our imagining, but you remain the same. Then I blink and our eye contact is shattered and we are just two people passing by each other. Did I know you in that instant? No, but how I did love you.