By dev0n
Date: 2001 Dec 10
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[[2001.12.10.01.11.1449]]

i do

"Do you want me to let you go?" you ask, on the telephone, miles away from home.
"No, no.." I reply, "What are you up to today?"
And we chat, a few minutes, and I can tell you've just woken up.
You have that sleepy sound in your voice that I know so well.
I can picture you sitting there, with your hair all a mess.

"What're you doing right now?" you ask, as a pause fills the telephone line.
"Laundry." I reply, but really I should be saying:

    Thinking about you.
    Your achingly beautiful smile.
    The way my skin feels when you touch it.
    The fact that I want to marry you, that I'm really sure I do.

    My mother says that she thinks, from the way I am talking, that you're the one, too.
    And my grandmother says that she has a "feeling" about you.
    "You know how you can just tell with people?" she asks.
    "Yes, I do." I reply, smiling a smile that is reserved just for you.

We talk a bit longer, and I'm not really sure what I'm saying.
Idle chatter about my day, and then I remind you to drive carefully,
and then you say
"I love you"
and I say
"I love you too"
and I've never meant anything more,
you really are the one for me, I believe that,
I really do.