"I Want to be in Love With You"
I want you to be the reason
My bad days never seem as bad as they did
I want to be able to give you my heart and
Your well-manicured hands will treat it like
Gilded notes of the most beautiful music known to man
I want to do something incredibly embarrassing and
Not even care that you’re laughing
Your eyes to be my alarm clock
Your lips to be my coffee
Your smile to be my breakfast
Be the reason I wake up in the morning
I want to be late to family functions because
We just had to spend another 45 minutes arguing
Over who loves the other more and
I simply refused to relent until you gracefully bowed out
I want to regret ever having the audacity to
Attempt writing a love poem before
I want to trace the dent in the mattress
Feel a genuine sense of grief
Whenever you’re unable to spend nights with me
Feel helpless when you’re not around
I want to gaze at you in the shower and feel envious of the
Millions of water droplets that will get the pleasure
Of spending their last moments alive on your skin
I want to crave the taste of your earlobe when I find myself
Daydreaming about nibbling your ears
I want to be vulnerable enough to say
Not care what anyone else thinks
I daydream of strangers who will
Talk about how in love we must be and
Say they want a love like ours
I want to wonder what we’ll be like forty years from now
When we spend Sunday afternoons after church
Reminiscing about how in love we were when we were younger and
How it pales in comparison to what we feel for each other now
I want someone to mention your name and have the ends of my lips
Curl up into a permanent smile that can only be removed by
The best of plastic surgeons
I want to tattoo doorknobs on your eyelashes and
Know that the key remains steadfast in the palms of my hands so that
I’ll wipe away the tears and
Run my fingers through your locs (locks)
That we can always be open with one another
I want to have firefighters on standby at all times
We have someone there to extinguish the fireworks
I want to consider a life without red meat and pork and
My Aunt April’s macaroni and cheese
Just so that I can enjoy your presence that much longer
I want to be in love with you and