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How amazing it is
To remember conversations
And how someone made you feel
Months after events unfolded
When everything in the present
Seems to have turned upside down
And nothing is at all the same

I can still recall the butterflies
Instilling in me a feeling
Of excitement I have not felt in a while.
I heard your voice, gentle and tender
And no matter what the medium was,
On the phone, In person
Knowing that your voice
Spoke to me and only me
Sang a melody to my ears.

That night, I witnessed
A transparent, strong, blossoming woman
Unlike anyone I have met before
From a timid makahiya
To a flowering, vibrant rose
Opening up and willing to trust
Elegant, yet still not without some thorns

It was an ephemeral night
With all the magical thrills and compliments
Captured within a fleeting snapshot of life
A night like that may never happen again
And no opportunity left to treasure
More of your picture-perfect smiles
But regardless of time’s passing,
Half a year after an innocent night in fall
The beautiful thing is
​I got to know you more at all.