Explorer

Once I let a person into my life and

I get to know them, 

I start to fall in love with them.

Not in a romantic date or marry me sense,

but the kind of love where you fall in love

with your best friend, bits by bits,

pieces by pieces of who they are. 

I start to see the world in their eyes

and I become an explorer, wanting

to travel the length of their mind

and discover forbidden memories

and hidden secrets. I begin to lose

myself in the compass of their heart

and the terrain of their soul.