Love Backwards

Love Backwards

Where’s the fun in forever?

Not a no-rose person,

I’m a rose person.

I want someone longing to receive roses.

I want someone to sing sentimental songs about.

I want to make off like bandits to Napa,

Share a glass of insanely priced claret,

Kiss furtively in alleys,

Exchange names, blood types,

I want us to dance backwards into each other,

I want to make eye contact from opposite sides of the room and not look away.

I want to feel her electricity from far afar.

I want forever.

- December 2018