They said/I know

 A missed call and a sleepish smile strike me, cheek to cheek. I’ve shed it all. They said I wasn’t going to amount to much but why do I feel like I’m holding the world in my hands? My core burns with excitement and fear, all at once. I am alive in a way I thought I once was. It is nothing compared to this. I used to live like I had lives to spare. I could have been anything in the next lifetime. I was humbled. What I now live in is the knowing of the swiftness that is a fleeting forever. The present. Here now, gone in the next tomorrow. Nothing is granted except who I believe myself to be in that second. The clock moves as I am still. Still facing the soul I chose to evolve into to. Breathe deep, you can always begin again. How beautiful. How reassuring. The madness of it all. And I’d do it all again for me. For you.