Just like that

And all of a sudden

I am twenty-two again

Transported to a time

When I had no idea

What I was doing

Incessantly figuring out

Where my life was going.

In that state of in-between

It was only in the time being

Prompt to recreate

Get myself to think straight

And once I was ready

I would leave this phase

Desist from meandering

Find a way back to the race.
Never would I have imagined
Just like that
A mundane monday night

The second I caught you
You glancing at me
I knew on the spot
That nothing will ever be
The same again for me.
Complex enough as it were

You had to mess with my scheme

Had to worm your way into

My heart, thinking for two.

Long I had thought
How jarring it was

The worst timing of all

A year to take care of myself
And I did not comprehend
How any of this could help.
But that special spot you held
Now looking back
In hindsight
Glad I took the chance
You were probably the best thing
That could ever happen
You loved me at my worst
Already then saw in me
What I always wanted to be.
Fast-forward to the present
Five years later
Five years of rigor
Meanwhile
Creating the me
The one you were certain
I was one day going to be

Now on other sides
Living parallel lives

Just like that, life happens

Another one is your wife.
 But there are occasions
The present is put on pause
Just like that
The past is back on track
Neither bitter nor morose
Just a star in the cosmos.
In love there is no timing
It is a plan of no free will
A moment never-ending
We shared nothing but the truth
We came to love each other
Like we were destined
To shortly change one another.
Today I am just relieved
To know that I also meant
Something to you
That at one point in time
I was also everything to you.
It is only after
Once the story is over
That you figure out
All absolute things
Anything in life at all
Has its reasons
Because it takes only a second
Just like that, that life happens
And the gratitude
That it even happened at all.