It All Still Matters

I sit by your bed. Watch the rise and fall Of a breath

that's Fought through it all. Hospital lights humming, humming low,

slow. My mind drifts back to roads we didn't know. Years went by.

Two strangers in the same world. Different stories, different turns. But somehow time

bent just enough to teach my heart what grace looks like. I didn't know

you, you didn't know me. For a long stretch of this

life. But here we are. And I believe Some things are

right on time. It all still matters. Every minute here. Every quiet word,