When You Know

When you know, you know.

When you know, you glow

From the inside-out,

Up, down, and below.

When you know, they know.

When you know, it shows

Through the warmth of a smile,

Turning ice into snow.

When you know, he knows.

When he knows, I know,

In the force of a hug

When things seem to go

To a place where he thinks

I may no longer know,

Where seeing me sad

Is the worst kind of blow,

Where a quivering chin

And the tumbling flow

Of a tear is enough

For the floor down below

To drop, like the earth

Will swallow you whole

If he doesn’t know

That I know what I know.