a  handshake
sincere smiles all around
i laughed as my feet hit the ground
we had so much in common
i must have retold all my favourite jokes to you
because by the second time we hungout
i found you reciting the same jokes to all your friends

a pinky swear
with more to say then just drama and secrets
we found ourselves connected by unspoken truces
and the promise to stay there for more
not knowing what "more" stood for, scared me
but you said i could trust you
so of course
i did

a thumb war
subliminal targeting with unprepared words
sometimes i wasn't sure if you even meant it
other times i questioned who had the upper hand
was there even a hand to be upped
or did my stubburness seem too pretentious to recognize
and my fatal flaw was not recognizing yours

an arm wrestle
stuck between what we knew and what we wanted
ambitious ties and flawed questions
maybe sometimes flawed people
but mostly unrecognized confusion and dismay

a punch**
it was really quick and it hurt like hell
i guess i didn't have my guard up when it happened
not sure what you took out in the process
but we both lost something
that something i didn't realize till now
i never really lost in the first place