Not All Darkness is Terrifying

It wasn't until we kissed
when the inner most part of your bottom lip
started to kiss me back
and it felt brand new--after kissing you thirty times a day
two hundred and ten times a week
minus a few months here and there

it was our brand new kiss tonight
that made me realize
not all darkness is terrifying

Mixed with the fact that my brain,
racing, trying to flee the scene to collect my pulse
i stepped shin deep in a rain puddle
and stood there thinking,

"This is what I do now.
I step in the world's largest rain puddle,
and I stay silent. Because there is a warm
kiss on my forehead, just below my hairline
telling me it's okay to be silent sometimes."