Likeness in Love

She waited for the moonlight.

Awaiting the memories of a million years before float by.

Each one leaving her ever more breathless.

With each breath that leaves her, gives life to the one who has always captured her soul.

With every life that she lives, she searches every corner of the universe until her soul recognizes the other.

A recognition ever so faint that only the eyes of its pair will notice every small ache as a hint to be touched like she has not been touched before.

The ever so faint move of her head, of the twitch that burns in her heart.

She has been waiting for many days that seems like lifetimes as she awakes to greet a new day.

This sets her ablaze, filled with passion and joy that her body in essence has never felt in this lifetime.  

The pain that fills her only can be soothed by the likeness of the soul that recognizes her as an equal.  

A warmth that today envelops her at night. A love that isn’t foolish. A love that in its likeness is a remembrance to the lifetimes before and a healing that is unlike she felt before.  

-Riane Ashley Cardenas

Published in Flows: A Queer Poetry Journal