when we first meet i can feel myself being pulled in. i unwittingly recognize the motion, the draw to you. but i think nothing will become of it, so i don’t act.
when we meet again i recognize the bright fire that you are the heat you radiate and the tremors you create on my already unsteady earth, my own little island. but i dismiss you because i think we can’t work together.
when we play together and grow i realize that pairs are better than singles that being part of a duo or a team might not be so bad. but i don’t let myself get fully comfortable yet. because the past can be repeated here too.
when we vow to reach the top i feel invincible the concept of having you by my side and reaching unobtainable heights is imagined and far away but i let myself imagine and reach for it, our little goal, our shared dream.
(years pass. we work, we grow, we fight. we grow closer than i ever thought i could be with someone. you are the foundation of my now stable ground, my home that i cherish.)
when we do reach the top in front of a crowd of cheering spectators, i understand that invincibility is not only imagined it is a reality, something we dreamed and worked to make years ago when we were new and young, i never expected us to teach these heights.
(but when you squeeze me tightly after you score the winning point off of a toss once rebelled against by others that we have made our own specialty since, i think that maybe this has been right all along, that the initial pull to you had been correct, fated.)
and although i had not admitted it initially, although i had resisted, i had always known. that you and me, together, were destined to burn bright and certain.
FILL: SWAG 2016
no warnings
when we first meet
i can feel myself being pulled in.
i unwittingly recognize the motion, the draw to you.
but i think nothing will become of it, so i don’t act.
when we meet again
i recognize the bright fire that you are
the heat you radiate and the tremors you create on my already unsteady earth, my own little island.
but i dismiss you because i think we can’t work together.
when we play together and grow
i realize that pairs are better than singles
that being part of a duo or a team might not be so bad.
but i don’t let myself get fully comfortable yet. because the past can be repeated here too.
when we vow to reach the top
i feel invincible
the concept of having you by my side and reaching unobtainable heights is imagined and far away
but i let myself imagine and reach for it, our little goal, our shared dream.
(years pass.
we work, we grow, we fight.
we grow closer than i ever thought i could be with someone.
you are the foundation of my now stable ground,
my home that i cherish.)
when we do reach the top in front of a crowd of cheering spectators,
i understand that invincibility is not only imagined
it is a reality, something we dreamed and worked to make
years ago when we were new and young, i never expected us to teach these heights.
(but when you squeeze me tightly after you score the winning point
off of a toss once rebelled against by others that we have made our own specialty since,
i think that maybe this has been right all along,
that the initial pull to you had been correct, fated.)
and although i had not admitted it initially,
although i had resisted,
i had always known.
that you and me, together, were destined to burn bright and certain.