Close your eyes and let it drift away
It’s OK if now and then
We don’t create an epic story with our day
If we say fewer words to one another
Than Schwarzenegger in the original Terminator
If our interior worlds remain unsaid
If, sometimes, when the light goes off
You just need to sink forever into bed
If the most romantic thing I’ve said all day
Is “I got you a biscuit,
Because I was getting myself a biscuit
But if you don’t want it, I’ll have it.”
Our silence as we stare at our phones
If this were a play
Would be a telling tableau of a relationship
With all the colour drained
But days like these are echoes, not of disaster
But of a song that’s always there
If you know how to listen
Of days when the course is set and strong and good
And I need nothing more than you
In my peripheral vision
So romantic.
ReplyDelete