Here All This Time

To reach out to some soul who would understand
She sent an open message of need.

To let the pain flow forward and leave him
He presented himself in a disguise .

To find validation for a view of the world that was tilted to the side
She wrote about her life.

To immortalize love he felt
He captured that ephemeral feeling into verse.

To vocalize the insecurities that she would challenge and conquer
She presented her path of questioning and resistance.

We came together by accident finding threads of ourselves in the lives of others
A mirror upon which our reflections were distorted and simplified.

Telling our stories... our narratives of a world uniquely ours
In a public place.

This was a new story that flowed from an old one
A instinctive need to connect, to share our world.

And really nothing can describe us all except that
We are here and we didn't know you were hiding there all this time.