How did you two meet?

Every patch of light

 is a portal

  to the place

   Spirit and Matter

     first met,

That candle-lit

 hole-in-the-wall

  that turns into a juke joint

    once all the ancients have gone to sleep.

Matter was

 holding down the party

  when Spirit strolled in

   infusing the room

    with an energetic perfume

     that made all the drunken titans

      lick their lips and swoon.

Abraham, JC, and Mohammed

 were in the back, throwing darts

  talking about the great journeys

   they hoped to make

They saw Spirit come in

  and knew Matter had been looking

   for just the right lady

So they hopped on the bandstand

  and started rocking slow songs

   the best they knew how.

Matter took the invite to relax

 and ran with it,

  met Spirit unwinding by the bar

   and they began

   to dance with it.

That band played all night

  as Spirit and Matter

 danced along

Staring at each other

 and thinking—

“What beautiful babies we will have.”