I want to know you (now).
On this day,
At this time.

(I want to
Know you).

Now
I want to show you how
gentle hands can feel
around a face they find so beautiful,
They question if it's real.

I want to show you how
Your smile is worth its weight in miles
of the world's most gorgeous words
laid across the earth like tiles.

So that if you should ever doubt
the words you've read,
you could trace each, like crumbs of bread
Until it led you back to what feels now to be
the world's most empty bed.

I want to know you now.

I want to feel your heart;
beat
kicking like a bass drum,
before anyone tries to rough it up
like the small kid on the playground
caught day dreaming under a gloomy sky,
picking out the biggest cloud,
and begging it to cry.

I want to know you now
Before "leaving" sounds like "LOVE" to you.

I want that word to hum to you,

Risk its vowels to come to you,

Let you know that all it ever wants
is one to run to you.

(I want to know you)

Now,
I want to show you how
gentle hands can feel
when they whisper words into your skin,
so soft,
you wonder if it's real.