you will be softer

when you meet that person
a person
one of your soulmates

let the connection
relationship
be what it is

it may be five minutes
five hours
five days
five months

five years
a life time
five lifetimes

let it manifest itself in the way it is meant to
it has an organic destiny

that way if it stays or if it leaves

you will be softer

from having been loved this authentically

souls come into
return
open
and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons

let them be who
and what
they are meant

the text in this post is a poem by nayyirah waheed

I started this unfinished quilt a lifetime ago,
it's very soft.