We Decided to be in Love

We decided to be in love,

to erase the crazy idea

of landscapes that called our intrepid souls apart,

distant realities that fed our independence,

acting as a buffer to the theory that we belong together,

in the lie of a life that says we don't,

in the midst of it all

we found the course that was the root of our love

from the beginning,

yet we dashed off to fulfill dreams

that draped the dreams that made us cry for one another at night,

in the darkness that made us question what we had,

in the darkness that made us blind

to the crazy notion that no love was greater than ours',

that made us think we lost it,

a misplaced perfection like a storm cloud in the desert,

thinking the cloud brought lightening,

ignoring its shade,

and altogether forgetting the rain,

we were so close to a mistake,

tasting a freedom that was vile to our pallets

and a prison within the open space

of what could have been our empty lives,

realizing before the gate was closed

to grab on tight,

to intimately lock our fingers and never let go,

we decided to be in love,

knowing we were never out of it.

3.26.05