June 1, 2016
I wonder if other people do this - if they ever have a notion of the absolute truth before that truth seems plausible. I wonder if it has happened for you. Have you ever met someone, and immediately known: I have the capacity to love you? This is how I would have described this four months ago, and it's still how I'd describe this, today. While I don't love you, yet, I know I could.
I kept putting off permanence, refusing to cite you in ink, because I kept thinking: You are too good to be true. With today, I have learned that you are good, and true. The reality of you has exceeded the image of you. I want you in my life for a long time.
I'm putting this into the universe, and I know it can hear me.
This is me putting it out there and speaking it into existence: Please, let her stay.
YOU ARE READING
How Autumn Came to be
PoetryI've never understood why the third season of the year gets to have two names. Fall and Autumn. Spring only gets one name, as do summer and winter. It's always been lost on me, what made fall so different. And then I met you. You are the reason the...
