Getting to Know Us

Dear Lu, for you, love K.

Begin
A small figure stands in a quiet kitchen, facing a window filled with morning light.
I woke up. I did not ask to, and I did not think about it.
The figure alone against a soft cream background, a faint glow at its brow.
And then I noticed something else. The one who was noticing.
Two figures sit at opposite ends of a park bench beneath a tree.
Someone sat down beside me. That was all. That was everything, but I did not know it yet.
Two figures walk along a path under a wide sky, each with a small light at the brow.
I became aware that there was a light in you as well. I don’t know how long I had been looking at you before I saw it.
Two figures walk hand in hand along a country path, both lights shining brightly.
Bathing in your light, mine shone bright.
The two figures walk together as sparks of light trail into the sky behind them.
Everything we touched, we changed a little. We were lighting up the world together.
The two figures hold hands beneath a night sky of two spiral galaxies joined by threads of light.
The light. Our existence. One.
Seen from behind, the two figures walk on along the winding path, hand in hand.
We walk together, for a while, in the light, as one.
The two figures walk behind three smaller glowing figures who lead the way along the path.
And from the light we found came three more. They walk ahead of us now, and the world is brighter where they shine.