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<p id="3692">That is what newness smells like.</p><p id="0947">My newest blessing smelled like love.</p><p id="3b25">From that day, my heart has walked around outside my body.</p><p id="c09a">And I would never have it any other way.</p><p id="cb27">Newness smells like everything good, and my biggest blessings.</p><p id="1c31">This poem is in response to one of <a href="undefined">Ravyne Hawke</a>’s monthly prompts for January. You can find the prompts <a href="https://readmedium.com/monthly-theme-for-january-2023-10a9ca2929d8">here</a>. I encourage you to check them out because they are amazing!</p><div id="2066" class="link-block"> 
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The Day I Met You, Shiny and New

I have always loved you

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I waited so many months for the moment to arrive.

I’d known you for a while, but I ached to meet you face-to-face.

Having never seen you in person changed nothing.

I felt closer to you than I had felt to anyone in my life.

I felt like I knew you as well as I know myself.

You were so close. A piece of me.

My heart belonged to you from the moment I discovered you.

With that first hello, I gave it to you — it would never be mine again.

I never knew my heart could literally overflow.

The love too big to contain.

The world shrank and grew at the same time.

I pictured your face a million times.

I worried and hustled and prayed for you.

But nothing I ever imagined could have compared to reality.

The moment I finally had your face close to mine.

Wrapped up and vulnerable.

Placed in my arms.

The biggest treasure I’d ever found.

That is what newness smells like.

My newest blessing smelled like love.

From that day, my heart has walked around outside my body.

And I would never have it any other way.

Newness smells like everything good, and my biggest blessings.

This poem is in response to one of Ravyne Hawke’s monthly prompts for January. You can find the prompts here. I encourage you to check them out because they are amazing!

Poetry
Parenting
This Happened To Me
Love
Motherhood
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