keep it together

you tell me i blend like coffee.
i tell you your eyes sing songs.
and your words come tumbling out much faster than you intended them to: if we keep in touch…through college…and after college…who knows…

and then you smiled sheepishly at my raised eyebrows. 
i guess i kissed away your fear of commitment, because then you said,
don’t take this the wrong way but…
i’ll always love you.

(don’t worry, my dear, we’re in up to our stomachs and we’re getting deeper, the days roll by and we never stop staring and touching and laughing, the breeze in our ears helps us keep it together, the park bench, the coffee shop, the little silver car…

the sideways kisses that melt away the bitter taste in my mouth after i speak to my father, the way you hold me when i just can’t take the way it hurts, the softness in your voice when you ask me why why why…and i can’t give you an answer…)