By Nikki
Date: 13 May 2000

Can It Be?

Can it be considered
a whirlwind romance?
A few months of pulling
all nighters online, talking 
about everything and nothing.
Phone calls lasting hours
just listening to each other 
breathe, breaking the silence only
when a thought strikes us.
E-mails to fill a book
with the less than 
simple niceties of 'how
was your day...mine was 
ok but I missed you' that
people so often take for 
granted.

Can it be considered
a great courtship?
Ten days, slipping by too
quickly, memorizing every
nuance of personality that
appears while you teach me
to fish.  Nine nights, Time 
too cruel to slow down, as
you teach me things about
my body, my wants, my needs
that I didn't know
were there.  Trying to 
memorize every touch, taste,
scent, feeling, whisper, to 
fully examine when there is better 
opportunity.

Can it be considered
a rushed affair?
You're picking out houses
and asking me to move.
I'm tearing out my hair
and going through boxes of kleenex
trying to make it work
financially, while trying
to rationalize how real and
deep these feelings possibly are.

Can it be considered
a perfect match?
So I'm no Cinderella
and you're no Prince Charming,
but BABY, you can write my
fairytale anytime!

5/13/00 nl