(To: Linda & Glenn)
I fell in love with you again today
I have to admit, it’s be(a)n touch and go
I’m sure you will agree we were in a bit of a holding pattern
Just sort of… percolating
Not that I’m not committed
To running off the side of a mountain
With you on my back
I’m brand loyal that way
It’s just nice to know we have the option
To land midfield before approaching
Right base for final
Even good consumers need choices
Perhaps this has made us complacent
No one likes a weak cup of coffee
Not to mention, the fact that I could have you every day
Three, four times a day any way I want
Does leave an aftertaste of fruitlessness
There’s a fine line between death and desire
Called familiarity
Remember when every cup was perfect?
I guess even bliss gets boring after a while
∞
Having met the Buddha
And killed him, bludgeoned and beheaded
Several times now
You’d wonder how many lives we’ve
Got to learn
How many times
We think we know
A thing
A person
A feeling
∞
Sad to say how the taste of even freedom
Gets old
Grows bitter in the mouth of self-righteousness
∞
I fell in love with you again today
Not because of anything you did
Or said
And not because I know you any better now
Quite the opposite in fact
I fell in love with you again
Because today you proved
That
As much as you tell, share, open, confide, trust or show me
As much as I think I’ve seen, known, revealed or discovered about you
I will never know all of you
That your capacity for surprising me is so vast and deep and incomprehensible
I could spend several thousand lifetimes
Learning you and only get a glimpse
Of your undeniable exquisiteness
∞
There! Where the lights surrounds you
And makes a halo of your hair in the flower garden
Then! When in the dark you lift the lid
Of(f) your treasure(d) chest
To show me what you’re really made of
∞
You can trust me with those secret jewels
Those city lights, that foggy night
You sparkle under the story of how you got made
Through heat and pressure
And fire and cold
And violent matings of minerals
In this lifetime
And let me polish your brilliant flaws
To a shine
With mine
Costacalle drinks Café Naranjo and you can too!