Long, long ago

Those days too

I looked at you

and laughed off shopping lists;

and I forgot

to follow the plot

and keep the dialogue crisp.

I kissed your brows,

overlooked laws,

kept too many doors ajar.

I left every side

too open, too wide,

stayed too long and went too far.

I touched your cheek,

swooshed down oblique

planes of your body and brain;

wherever I went

my life quickened

with this mad lovesong in my veins.

I lurched and stopped

every dream that plopped

away from your lashes and mine.

Of course things change,

feelings rearrange,

but that’s same after all this time.

For the love of all my lives, this and the next six..