Blink

I could have gotten lost in your eyes today

Sitting across a table at Taco Time

But you blinked

And my heart sighed with the Almost

I could have lost my light in a shadow of my past

Tripping on a foreign version of myself

But he blinked

And my feet found the path they had lost

I could have given you my heart

Knowing that you’d always care for it

But I blinked

And my legs carried me far away

I could have been happy with you

Smiling and loving and finding ourselves

But I blinked

And now I realized—too late—that you are what I want.

TL

28 September 2004

9:37pm

revised: 3 October 2004

12:26am