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I used to think we would change the world

You & I

I would imagine your polite smile

Sweet enough even to caress her out of a corroded misery

Your discipline to lay tarry shingles

One by one, and maneuver a family 

from the wrath of “God’s Mighty Hand”

Your laughter as you paddled out 

to catch the biggest one the Gulf could muster

Your tenderness big enough to dream up conversations with the greats;

Hawthorne, Dickens, T.S. Elliot 

And my heart, so swollen with expectation, that its entire contents were nonsensical.

To think that my self-indulgent notions had already stitched together every solitary detail

and, I could barely hold my breath

But then, I spewed coffee, that wasn’t even hot, all over my new white blouse, after reading your  casual remarks

And so, I lingered there, in that moment,

until the dizzying spiral of the room subsided

And, with the impact of a 2 ton mass,

I understood that my heart must relent.