About we lie and laugh and laze
In these hot and hazy lust-filled days.

Counting clouds and admiring with kisses,
We soar to a time back where nobody missed us

To relive and rehearse the love scenes we’re writing:
A world built for two, one with no cause for hiding.

Facing each other, you reach for my hand,
Calling me by pet names only you understand.

And in that moment, a bond’s made and sealed,
An eternal promise good as long as we feel

The quivering and quaking which animates our “Now.”
Surely as sacred as a vocalized vow?

(Retooled, Revised, Rewritten, and Reposted)

Photo credit: Jennie Clavel. Thank you!