Alone together

 

I feel a shift in the world. My world. 

I still feel my heart leap in my lover's presence.

But now there is a stability to it that was missing before.

Now I am part of a couple that stands firmly together, arms around each other, hearts and heads leaning towards each other, united by something more than gushing words of love.

Never, in my whole life, have I felt this kind of surety, this sense of security. The panic is gone.

I am not dangling off his arm ready to fall on his next whim and he is not standing beside me waiting for my next barb.

We stand united, two separate strong beautiful people, mightily in love with life and each other. 

This is the relationship I once dreamed about and thought nonexistent.

It takes a special love for this to occur. Two people secure enough within themselves to allow the other to be real and whole and to stand alone so they can stand together.