into the aether (version 2)

"into the aether"

The music was playing 

in some house 

of a friend of a friend 

over on the north side of town;

in between the lulls of our talking 

I would look around 

and there you were,

   some stranger,

   standing across the room, 

Seeing you for the first time, 

   you looked back

and all the people faded away, 

It was the first time in a long while 

where my heart felt open to someone again,

I thought I had fallen in love, 

it was the first moments of our story together, 

I've had my chances at love,

had my 

once in a lifetime a few times 

and every time it ends 

I end up 

with more than a few regrets,

Would I change it? Hell no, 

although 

I do wish sometimes 

it didn't hurt this awful,

I would change some of the things 

that made us end, 

I would give up all my memories 

from since you left 

just so I could be back 

in that moment where 

I first saw you again,

I guess I'm a liar, 

I would change it all 

just for another fresh chance,

I wish what I know now 

I knew then 

so instead 

we'd still be writing 

our story together rather than 

me writing poetry alone 

reminiscing about back then,

But all our moments together 

permeate throughout all of space

and whatever was us

has already 

been absorbed 

between the particles of history

making disappear whatever it was 

that made us come together 

in the first place.

-Armando Torres