today you sat across from me
and i wanted to believe your words
and i wanted to see our futures
as we placed ourselves
in the years that come together

we could do it you know

and i feel my back hard against this marble

its not advisable
but we could do it

the pink in your face is so beautiful and your shirt
and your eyes so eager and your skin
so much skin and i try to remember why 24 hours
ago i was trying to list the reasons and justify to myself
why we should be apart when the answer
is in this beautiful garden next to the hudson river
and suddenly my head is full of all these gnat
explanations i have told myself
and i am a good liar

yet here you are holding out a brightly tinted
dream here in your hands

and i know it shouldn't be able to work
to catch our eye so easily
and i know we should be harder
and i know i should be stronger
but it plays with the light so tenderly
and turns such beautiful colors
that i cannot help but invest my love
in its space

and i want these 1152 square inches to be my world