I once thought myself
An expert swimmer,
& then I met you.
& then you crept under my skin.
& then the wave of your love
Crashed over me,
That sun-kissed day.
& NOW, I can barely stay afloat.
Not even sure I want to.
This tendency to lose
My swimming skills around you
Should be scary, but it isn’t.
Neither is the thought of you
Turning chef in a breakfast café.
MOST days, I awake at dawn
With thoughts of you
Dancing in my head
& your love singing in my soul.
Lover, you are sky, I am sun—
There’s nowhere else I’d rather be,
Even on days you house storms.
NIMI, a reminder: you are God’s
Prized possession, & mine too—
The one for whom my heart beats.
My heartbeats attest to this.
& so I’m sitting here,
Staring into space—
Thinking of a thousand ways
To say I love you every day.
