it was one of those days
where the river
seemed so dark
it was swallowing the clouds
whole instead of reflecting them in the sky
you sat on a concrete park
bench and told me you didn’t believe
in monogamy and i pretended i didn’t either
even though we both know
i was lying since
i’d been married before
there was a time i used to wish
the river would swallow me whole
and i’d drift inside
of it like a bubble never
worrying what other people
i.e. you
thought about
things like monogamy
i know,
i can be too much sometimes
but let’s drift a little further north
from here
and let the lake hold us accountable
for our sins
everything seems so different now
more of something
less people
better
distant from that day
on the bench
comfortably unfamiliar all the same
this is uncharted territory
my love
i can’t even give you the coordinates
because i don’t quite know
where we’re going myself
i just know we’re here having all
these moments
between us blending together
like the beach under our feet
reshaping
remaining
reinventing ourselves like a sandbar
in the middle of Michigan
the current could carry me away
a million times
and a million times i’d swim back
hands on your waist
lips to your neck
love as constant
as the waves below
the
shifting
dunes
the sway of the trees
melissa
will
you
marry
me?
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