An Imperfect Romance

An Imperfect Romance

For him I longingly wait
Under a black sky painted with lights.
I tap my foot, panic pounds my temples
My heart cracks with each minute.

The moon shines bright
I’m late-
I hope she can forgive me.

Right before it shatters,
I hear his footsteps,
A familiar walk I’ve heard on this grass
Many times before.

Her smile melts me.
I take her face in my hands
For a kiss.

Even the millionth kiss
Leaves my head spinning, my heart pounding.
He picks me up,
Lays me on the blanket.

Butterflies with every touch.
Our bodies move,
Perfectly synchronized.

His tenderness engulfs me.
Our hearts beat our fears away together.
The world around us vanishes
We are left in the sublime.

As we lay, staring at the stars
That know our secret,
We keep none from each other:

We laugh and play until the time has come
That we must depart.
Oh how I long for this moment
To never end.

A goodbye kiss that could be our last.
I hesitantly walk away, longing stabs my gut.
“I love you” I whisper to the darkness.

“I love you” I whisper to the darkness.
Words never spoken to the other
For Fate gave us others to love
Even though we never could.

Fate gave us each other too late.
Something so irrevocably, wickedly wrong,
Should never feel perfectly right.