Meeting You

Today’s draft is inspired by meeting new people and immediately feeling like I’ve known them forever on some elemental level. And also by the sunrise through the windows of. plane as it lands.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhen I saw you, it was a joyful reunionwith someone I've never met.I know your face, or rather,I know the light that shines from it.I recognize it from yesterday, the last few minutes of the flight to here.When the plane turned, shifting towards the earth,the sun's rays swept the cabin like a searchlighttouching this face, and that onewith gentle golden fingertips.This is the light in your face -- when I saw it, my heart rose,feeling the return to grounded earth,the end of seclusion in the skies.