By Violet
Date: 2001 Oct 26
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[[2001.10.26.02.55.4414]]

a little lesson i learned

it's taken me a while to really get this
it has been several nights of pondering my existence
and many long talks with many long faces
before it really sunk in
and i am stupid for not really grasping it before
oh, but i get it now, loud and clear
i'm sitting there, eating this amazing waffle
(which i hadn't done in a really long time)
when it really hits me (ouch!) like a ton of bricks
love.
love, love, love, LOVE!
it's so much more than i thought it was
i mean, yeah, i knew it was there...i always knew that
but wow! it's so much more
that some stupid mushy phrases
scrawled on a postcard
it surpasses any other emotion
it is more than heat and passion
more than trust and understanding
holy cow! it's the key to the entire crazy world.
and it's hard to get in without a key!
(i've never really been the breaking and entering type)
i'm sitting here, with imitation maple on my lips
and it's really sticky sweet
and there he is, standing in front of me
obviously having known about the reality of love for some time now...
and i am dumbfounded.
he's had his key so long it's getting rusty
(he even lost his for a while
and i thought that was bad
until i realized that i didn't even know i had a key
to begin with)
it takes a waffle on a sunday
to make me see just how many doors we can open together
i like that