Recognise Me

You knit me together,
Didn’t you,
Out there, somewhere, in uncornered space,
And I knew the immensity of you,
All your twists and curves,
Passion and promise, and all the things undone,
Already done, and the joy of that.
I knew you intricately
As you poured into me.

Then you told me I’d have to forget,
Be more than I was
By losing you.
To which I rioted, of course, and clamoured,
‘There cannot be more’.
Perhaps I did not know all then,
After all.

Now I feel the fullness of blood,
Flush of panic or furious breath,
The whole cascade of knowing, being,
Living.
So days I linger with the ocean,
Fragments of a billion years between my toes,
Sound assaulting me;
The hissing, threshing waves
Whisper
In ears that hear for the first time
Secrets I already knew,

And I remember, familiar,
The shape of your face,
Though I would have sworn
It was new to me before.