We ate cookies on one of our first dates together
sitting smushed into a loveseat park bench,
chocolate chip, gooey, warm, soft, too expensive
but worth it.
I licked the corner of your mouth,
and you kissed me then, with meaning,
with purpose, like it was forever.
It was beautiful then & innocent.

We eat cookies together on the couch now,
six years later and opposite sides.
You don't look at me,
I look at you with half open eyes,
I'm tired,  
I'm like the yellow lamp
in a suburban town on a dead-end street,
waiting for you to come home,
but you don't and you never will.

I watch you talking on your phone.
I sit up, click into
Google & a cookie pops up "Tinder Swipe Right. It Starts Here. Start Something Epic."
We share everything now, Wifi passwords, Netflix, Hulu, a Peloton.....................

A new cookie for you.
None for me.