TOGETHER

“Tag, you’re it,” I said

dramatizing my own feelings

unwilling to see the you that lay

beyond my hopes and intentions.

I double dared you to confirm

what I had come to believe:

you would be just another memory-

possibly-

another regret.

My problem was not confusion

but the weight of my truth.

But

You were the brave one

who said, “If we love, let’s love!”

You gave me

a new beginning

that has the taste

of the purest childhood.

Together

we go to another country where

we can pretend

and

what we pretend to be

we are.

In this place

you are water

and

I am sand.

-For “One Shot Wednesday” at http://onestoppoetry.com/