I Think I Would Do Anything for Them

You ever meet that one person
that you feel like you’ve known forever?

The one that mirrors you, impossibly so, 
paints your features (every single one) in stardust gold,
as though you are nothing less than

perfect?

The one that talking with feels seamless, 
so familiar you swear that you were destined to meet,
tied together on an invisible string.

The Greeks used to say
that when humans were created, they had two 
heads, four arms, two hearts, two minds. 
The gods were so scared of their contentedness, 

love,

they severed them into two so each human would always be
searching for their other half. 
And maybe they were right to be scared, because when you find them, it’s unmistakable – 

You are struck by 
utter fondness, a warmth 
that fills through your chest and makes your throat ache and your eyes glisten and your heart sing because you are full to the brim, 
complete again, 
left to live and love and hurt and be absolute until you must find each other again, 

or see the universe begin to crumble.