Together

My beautiful darling, my perfect lover, my dearest. . .

As we get closer,

I might laugh a little too loud,

You might eat a little too much,

My joke would fall flat

Roses! Wine! Sweep you off your feet!

As our lips embrace,

Perhaps I kiss a little too hard

You might poke me a in the eye

I might snore that night (it was wine after all)

Ah, but the moonlight inspires romance! and love!

I forget to hold a door for you

You might pick your nose more freely

I kiss you with my morning breath

I will not always be handsome

and you will not always be beautiful

and love is mortal, as are we

But I give you my awkwardness, 

 my romantic heart,

  my forgetfulness,

   my poetry,

    my strange body,

     my devotion,

      my neuroses,

I give it all to you. . .

I'll will always make you smile,

and when I am in your arms, 

I will always feel warm

for what is love, if not an agreement to see each other

to really, really see each other, 

and still our eye shine,

our lips curl like clouds in the wind, 

and we sigh, together.