When I Think About You
When I think about you
it's like every firefly on Earth
congregated in a warm night sky
shaped themselves into an impossible bridge
with me on one side
and on the other side, glowing,
you.
When I think about you
I'm enjoying a slow, relaxing cup of coffee
I'm searching for inspiration at the end of a run
I'm teaching kids how to write at the local high school
I'm petting my cats while they purr
I'm wishing I knew how to cook Indian food
I'm thinking about how to fill my free time
I'm lighting my favorite candle
I'm writing
I'm sleeping
I'm drifting off to sleep
I wake up in the morning and there you are.
When I think about you
you and me are hooping it up,
schooling a bunch of past their prime men
on a local court, two on five,
their every shot an ache,
our every dribble a reverberation
of their former glory,
and yeah, it's a bit weird
that even part of what I think about
when I think about you is old men
until a thunderous dunk in my heart declares
game, set, match,
and I love watching the life in you too much
so I say let's run it back.
When I think about you
I hear Waxahatchee sing
"when you see me I'm honey on a spoon"
and I melt like the glacier should have,
kindly, graciously, forgivingly,
the moment before it took down the Titanic,
like how you melted in my arms
that night I saw you for the first time
after we'd been apart for far too long.
When I think about you
babies cry
dogs bark (and cats purr, of course)
furniture gets placed in the perfect position
a garden blooms
my shoulder is your pillow on an airplane
I carry you sleeping to the car
the perfect playlist follows us around the country
and that Waxahatchee song plays,
you singing along,
and I'm listening to you not the song
and there is so much luck in my heart,
so much gratitude,
so much sunshine and your favorite flowers.
When I think about you...
When I think about you...
When I...
It's like every firefly on Earth
congregated on a foggy dark day
to hover above you like a spotlight,
declaring this is not some mystery
who you are supposed to love,
but more simply put I smile,
big and stupid and full of joy
I smile,
and wish you were in my arms
when I think about you.