Forever.Land

I think of childhood as a time of forevers ad infinitum,

Everything's immortal, large, neverending 

Everything's draped in pretend capes woven with irreverent confidence, 

Everything's embellished with memories of excitement and euphoria of discovery, 

Not anymore, not now, no, I am no longer a child, 

Now, saddled with the weight of many a long-winding-dead-ended choices, 

Now, living with the selective amnesia and 'why's I don't have answers to, 

Now, without warm and fuzzy dreams of forevers and ever afters and ecstatic never-endings, 

I don't know, you know? 

So, I write these words, 

I want to remember, 

How this felt, 

Face up, bodies entwined, floating serenely in the ocean of my love, 

Lazy-eyed, satiatedly gazing upon the infinite twilit sky of your love, 

Whatever else happens, whatever we may become, whatever path we choose, 

I want to remember, 

How in this moment, we ARE love...