Everything canceled out

Sitting around a dining table

in the busiest restaurant in town

like any normal Sunday evening.

Cars passing by, dogs barking,

people chattering, forks clicking

against plates.

All of this happening around us,

yet all I could focus on is you.

All I could hear was our breath and the

wave of wind against the windows—

It was the most beautiful

quiet I've been in.

It wasn't those situations where others

would shout so that the person across

from them could hear over the noise.

Just one look at each other and we

already knew what the other was thinking.