One Billion Heartbeats

 One Billion Heartbeats

One billion heartbeats since your heart beat next to mine.

Ocean blue bathed in a snow white sheet. It’s not enough to know wounds are healed with time.

One billion breaths since we breathed the same air. It freezes into crystals and rises out of sight.

White sandy beach, white snowy mountain, are stars above where you sit tonight.

One billion wishes on shooting stars. Held tightly between breaths when speaking is not allowed.

Truth could be bold and proud. It’s one billion wishes on lightning bugs in mason jars.

One billion faces I’ve seen. One billion steps I am in between.

When the colors have all been bled, it heavies the head the words left unsaid.

One billion heartbeats since your face made mine skip a beat.

One billion crossroads, misdirections, since you were staring back at me.

One billion faces. One billion voices. One billion wishes drowned out by the sea.

Wishing one face could make me see what you made me see.