• you let me touch your pink cheek, and,
    baby,
    we're smiling like the sun and the clouds and the freckles on your shoulders
    and wondering why the sky is bluer than your eyes today.

    and we won't know the answer
    (not until you let me hold you, let me get a good look at you because, oh, darling, that new shirt does wonders)

    we're too busy laughing while the world is spinning and twirling like teacups
    like
    merry-go-rounds-
    remember the ones we used to ride that squeaked with rust and age-

    you are you are you are


    let's play until the sun sets and our hands reach instinctively for each other.
    let's please, please, tuck each other in and hope
    pray
    wish
    for the stars and dandelions in the morning.

    Tonight, you finally kiss me.