"Do you remember"

[Ex Tempore XXVI]

Do you remember that time when we gazed at the sable night-sky,
up at all the stars that shone so brightly and so wildly?
When you and I picked at each distant sun with our fingers, as if we could
remove them from the great cosmic canvas, placing them in our hands,
or wherever else we wished. They were diamonds that we
played with like sand on a beach whose breadth is a notion
that is only understood in numbers but which neither you nor I could explain.
But somehow we knew what it all was, knew what we were:
"you"—"I"—"we". We knew but we did not need to
acknowledge this. All there was was you, me and the stars watching us.
I remember that night, I remember that time—
a single moment when we were lost in the span of eternity and infinity.

M.M. — December MMXII