I would know you in complete darkness

By the way you draw breath

And your feet strike the earth.

I would recognise you in insanity,

All other faces wiped from my memory

I could know you even in madness.

I would know your face masked,

In disguise, in shadow

I could know you by touch alone.

I could find you in another lifetime,

Another universe,

In different bodies, in different times.

I would know you at the end of the world,

Were the stars collapsing

and our elements fading

I would know you even in death.

And I would love you through all of this.

[For any Madeline Miller fans, I just had to borrow some lines from my namesake ;)]