We drink.
To loosen up.
To have a good time.
To leave the world behind for awhile
And regret the leaving later.
But people say the most honest things when they are drunk.
So I never get drunk.
Not anymore.
Maybe because I am not an honest person.
Maybe because I do not want to say honest things.
Maybe the world I want to leave behind
Would become far more real if I acknowledged it in inebriation.
And so I stay sober.
To keep the truth to myself.

Except with you.
I cannot hide my honest feelings from you.
Maybe because I don't want to.
Maybe because love is more potent than alcohol
In this situation.
Because I feel perpetually drunk with you.
Because my words could never be
Anything but honest
In your presence.
And so you know everything.
Because you know that,
In spite of my sobriety,
I am drunk on you.
And I hope that in the wake of my infinite drunkenness,
The unimaginably honest love I have for you
Does not leave the aching regret
Of slow sobering.