Dali

My fortune cookie told me
love is the only true adventure
and I understood then how I 
never wanted to arrive anywhere 
but the moment I met you. 

I remember wanting to build
a home there, when you called
me for the first time. 

I couldn’t sleep for days thinking
this is probably what everybody else
dreams of when they dream of love.
 
I think love is everything you have
offered me on a golden plate…

It’s everything you had said
to me without having to say it.

Every ‘hello’ and ‘talk soon’ and ‘be good’
and every bit of small talk we engage in often.

Sometimes I spend weeks
missing you in a single minute.

The hours go so slow without you.

You’re at dinner with your friends and
I am still stuck on the morning coffee I shared with you. 

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like
to wake to you in bed, finding your things in
the bathroom when I catch myself thinking
I must be dreaming, and hearing your voice
from inside our apartment calling my name. 

My heart was so right about you.

You’re the vacation I mentally check
out to every time I need a little loving.