There is something so powerful about holding someone fragile in your arms when you feel the most frail, the pretense and judgement slipping away, saying, “Yes, I forgive you. Yes, I understand you. Yes, I believe you,” and having it echo back to you in a way that is just original enough that it startles you because for a mere moment  you had connected with someone so powerfully that you had almost forgotten you existed separate from one another.

Reduced to mere skeletons, the bones of the future, knowing that now matters most of all.