We tried calling it a coincidence or even a crush,
Then timing stepped in.
Something we should probably leave alone and let be.
Because naming this was bigger than what we were prepared for. And we weren’t ready. I wasn’t ready. We became experts at excuses… giving reasons why we missed our chance.
Driving in different directions. You built roads away from me.
I built lives without you. We let other people become landmarks and called distance a decision… Right person, wrong time!
Still…
Somehow…
We kept arriving at the same place. Wondering… dreaming… thinking!
You once told me you wanted to be the one who got away because you were scared.
Maybe that’s the part nobody tells you. Sometimes the one who gets away doesn’t actually go anywhere but stands somewhere quietly hiding. You said I knew too much. That I could see behind walls you spent years building.
And maybe I did.
Because I never loved only the parts of you that you showed the world. I saw the broken piece of art you thought needed to be hidden. But you saw mine too! Maybe that’s what frightened us.
Recognition. Seeing each other!
Our souls saying, “There you are.”
But we ran anyway. Other versions of ourselves asking to be lived… needing to be explored.
Yet somehow, despite the direction our lives went, the blue sky kept us connected. The bright moon reminded us of something we kept hidden.
Unexplained.
And suddenly I knew. For once, I didn’t need you to see it today.
Maybe you will tomorrow.
Maybe years from then.
Maybe never.
That wasn’t mine to control. And maybe that was the lesson all along.
Alignment isn’t chasing someone. It isn’t convincing them to turn around.
Alignment is looking up and having the courage to keep walking even when truth doesn’t immediately give you what you want.
Because some things are bigger than us.
Bigger than fear.
Bigger than timing.
Bigger than all the ways we learned to hide.
Maybe our paths crossed only to remind us what love was supposed to feel like.
Maybe they crossed to change us or awaken us.
But I now understand that if we find each other again,
We won’t have to force it. We won’t even have to name it.
We’ll simply look up and know we finally arrived.
We aligned!
From Healed Souls Series… Upcoming Book: Alignment Book Four
