Moments Like ordering two mochas Just to watch you make them Forgetting your name five times Before getting your phone number Wiping chocolate off your shirt Trying unsuccessfully to flirt my way Out of spilling on you Little moments Like finally having the guts to ask you out Running to the coffee shop full speed Just to find out it was your day off Sulking my way through my third cup of tea Cursing the fates for their insolence Right until you walked in to cover someone else's shift And running out too scared again Little moments like those Remind me why I fight through Big times like these Little moments Like driving over the mountains To get to the first big storm Just to be the first ones to kiss in the rain After the summer sun chapped our lips so long We forgot the taste of our kiss Little moments Like the first time I took you out in heels And you spent the whole night Whispering to yourself about not falling Right up until I fell twice Down a flight of stairs And for you Little moments Like you running over to pick my head up Off the concrete Staring at me with this look That made me want to ask you if you were okay Little moments Like that remind me That the big times like these Are worth fighting for That the big fights like these Are worth ending If only for the shot to have one more Little moment Like A movie perfect scene in the snow With snow ball fights, snow angels And a snow man with coal for buttons Eyes, mouth, sticks for arms and a scarf But we didn't have a carrot So you ran upstairs, broke off one of your heels And called him Stalleto-face for a week Little moments Like Burning three attempts at chicken cord en bleu And begging the old woman on the phone To put in one more order before they closed And tipping $100 just to have the chance To eat midnight fried rice on the living room floor Because the table was full of Foiled attempts at cooking Little moments Like those So dear to me Remind me there is no fight too big To give up little moments with you
A collection of poems by me is available on Amazon Where She Left Me - Michael DeVoe http://goo.gl/5x3Tae