I'll always remember

I’ll always remember you so small. Your tiny hands, feet and toes. Your cute button nose, and your delicate chest as it rises and falls. Your littleness will always leave big imprints on my heart.

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I’ll always remember the way you look up at me like I’m your entire world. The way I look at you like you are my world, including all the stars. The way the world stops when this happens before we both start smiling.

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I’ll always remember the deep dives into each other’s eyes in the moments of calm and the closeness of our breath in the storms that crash into us both sometimes. The way we are two but still one.

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I’ll always remember the softness of your skin against mine. The way you cling to every inch of the parts of me you can reach, some of the new skin I have so often tried to leave on its own. With you I’m never alone.

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I’ll always remember the moments we share in darkness, eyes half closed but hearts forever opened to each other. You being the light in the dark hours of sleeplessness. You shine through the hard, always.

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I’ll always remember the time we spend dancing around your room to the soundtrack of your heartbeat against mine. The slumbers in the light of day. The moments of surrender to everything you need.

I’ll always remember the growing weight of you nested underneath the new weight of me. Of my new body, my new responsibilities, my new worry. Nothing is too heavy for you. You find comfort in everything I carry just as I find comfort in carrying you.

I’ll always remember us. Right now. As we are.

And I’ll tell you about it one day.

Because you may not be able to remember,

But I’ll never be able to forget.

So I’ll remember for us both.