Stage one is just “hello.”


A relationship has many steps;
Like the staircase to hell, those steps are complicated.
Hello introduces the the idea of fear, love, hate, laughs.
Greetings are the sticks and paper to a crackling bonfire.
No going back on crackle snap pop rocks sending love to intermediate joker cards.
Boy am I a wild card, I’ll play you like a game of cards.
But only at stage 3.
Stage one is just hello.

Step 2 is the Talk Stage.
Speaking is hard sometimes.
Talking can be a metaphor, like roses blooming in moonlight...
Or rain water sinking into the soil.
Step 2 is better described, though, as
setting tones of color into your outline.
Learning to play but there's no instructions,
Mapping our minds and beliefs.

Stage 3 is when I burn us alive,
Bonfire friendship roasting our skin, crackly giggles and pinky-red smirks.
But we’re only at stage one, baby.
No screaming, shouting, reaching for our hearts...

Stage one is just hello.