are you at work now?
are you looking out the window
at the Hudson River
and daydreaming of what
might have been?
I am doing the same
on a highway
in the middle of a swamp.
what's important
is trying.
I promise not to bother you,
but I also promise to not give up,
not this time,
and I ask you to promise
the same thing.
for the first time,
let's go hard
at this
at us.
and don't give up
until we are out of love
or out of life.
I will protect you.
I will be gentle.