come.
close your eyes and take my hand.
our feet whisper through dampened grass,
i promise i’ll keep you near,
because i’d never want to lose you.
our steps match perfectly.
fill your eyes with open sky.
i’ve looked at these stars a million times,
but never with you.
these same lights that might have flickered into darkness
years and years ago.
we make wishes,
knowing that if we stare long enough
we’ll feel that imagined inky pull.
i’ll take you to the places that mean the most to me,
places where i don’t have to touch you to know that you’re there.
can you feel it, too?
i ask a lot of questions,
but i never get tired of hearing your answers.
sometimes the words don’t matter as much as the spaces left in between.
we’ll fill in the blanks with the dissonance of our laughter,
the sound of our rising souls.
you’re the meaning behind the words
of all my favorite songs.
and as the stars blink into nothing,
i think to myself:
we will last.
