To trace the outline of your slanted smile
Run my hands through your silk hair
Rub the sleepies out your eyes
Hold your hand down every street
Hope to God our eyes meet
Sing King Solomon’s songs
Strain to say goodbye
To take you somewhere dim
Where candlelight shines
Off your pupils’ corners
Where your lightly yellowed
Slightly crooked teeth
Break through the darkness
Little mornings in your mouth
Exceeded only
By the glory in your words
Like Junior’s Cheesecake strawberries
Written or spoken
I long for every syllable
To stay up late
Watching Netflix
Reading and telling stories
Dreaming wide awake
To wake up first
Take the open view
of your closed eyes in
Force myself out of bed
So I can get to work
Making pancakes
And coffee
Or buying bagels
… and coffee
Whatever it is, I’ll bring it to the bed
We’ll eat and then… have coffee.
To praise God for making me nearsighted
So without a single extra lens
Our souls can meet in their ballroom
Bursting at the seams of our lips
Until they refuse to be contained
And dance to panting exhaustion
To make things ours
Our brunch spot
Our cheesy love song
Our best (or worst) date stories
Our warm matcha memories
Our life.
To create a family
The kind that lives for generations
With two, three, four children
Who will tell campfire tales
of their parents’ love
Coloring pencil love
That will fill their outlines
With a tinge of envy
And a coat of dignity
Selfishly
To make you think of me, late into evening
To make you long for a text or call
To make you cling at my voice and scent
To make you mourn for me, at the end
Selflessly
To give you every bit of love I have
To make my every dollar ours
To fuse your tears
between my lips and your cheeks
To make my arms your comfort
Like Jermaine said
To fold clothes for you
To make you feel good
To do the right thing
To experience perfection
not the actual
but the personal
The perfect for me
To love you.
For as long as our life lasts.
To love you.
For as long as time will pass.
To love you.
Though all our days are grass.
To love you.
To love you.
To love you
.
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