The Bind Sight

I let my guard down, just for a moment---
and in that moment, you infected me,

your smile and your affinity to optimism,
it spread through my arteries,
like wildfire

and it cloaked all my sadness in something unfamiliar,
lifelike even,

so vibrant that I needed to take my pulse for fear of a life I had led all these years

I was always late,
late to my appointments,
late to the game,

but not this time,
not with the likes of you,
you, my uncharted constellation,

and you let me take this marker and connect all your dots,
and you promised to lie down beside me,
even if we disagreed before bedtime

so brilliant of an elixir between enthrallment and safety, that even I felt sorry for what I had settled for all those days before