Mystical Incantations

there was something in the corner of his smile that gave me a semblance of hope for our future I tried not to force my way inside his world stayed casually back three steps, maybe four she told me I'd changed during these last ten years and yet, somehow I still felt the same thinking to myself, it was her, not me I was the same caring soul his words, they were perfect and I want to believe is it possible the meanings are the same after all this time dare I now, take this tremendous first step that's really a second or third step overlapping the first step that never left ground his passion is real and yet, so is his sass coming at me, ten ways from Sunday can this be there was a mantra in the sound of his voice unmistakable. I know, I heard it... I am your own.