remember that day
we couldnt keep our hands off each other
on the living room floor,
rolling around like dust-bunnies
fucking like we were repopulating the earth
on our own,
rewinding the movie a dozen times
because we kept missing it
in half-hour blocks,
laying about like we were ne'r-do-wells
on a bender of sweat and vanilla oil.

remember that time
when we got high as kites
with the music so loud it filled our heads
and poured out of our eyeballs
like rainbows and rhythm
and those hands made my spine
feel like water and electric at the same time

remember that time
under the icy waterfall
the water so grey and shockingly cold,
the muck between our toes
my hair slicked down and those little
streams of water pouring around your
eyesockets and into the corners of your mouth
as i sat locked on your knees floating in
the water like a dream
the sunlight filtering through the leaves
on the trees
making halos around our faces
as we high-fived each other
for overcoming adversity
and natural impulses for survival
in 40 degree water

remember that day we watched the sunrise
on that visit where i saw the ocean for the
very first time,
and you had never seen me excited before,
so you filmed my reaction
to the horizon like it was an event to
be recorded for prosperity.
remember the little dolphin fins in the distance
and the champagne
and the little sandcrabs..
and i still have that picture
of you blowing bubbles with your gum,
cool as shit,
cause you're that guy.
that guy that winks, you got that swag,
and i love those little glimpses of it,
cause its genuine.

remember that day
when we still couldnt say the l-word
cause we had both been hurt too much
to let that word slip yet,
playing about on eggshells
too afraid to admit we still
had emotions, even after all that...
so i just put my hands around my heart
and fluttered my finger with the sparkles
of explosions,
sort of jazz hands for the emotional wreck,
but it still got the point across
and crossed that bridge
so that you knew i knew you knew i had you smitten,
you had me smitten,
and im still smitten.

08/18/2013

Posted on 08/18/2013
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