Romeo

(originally written 3/18)

When they ask

where we met

we’ll say

“just an old favorite place”

what we’ll mean

when we say it

is the look on your face

when I smiled

and you smiled

when I spoke to you

in your first language

and became a need

instead of a want

in the moment

in a bar

that happens to be

a hole in the wall

that I will never forget

you followed me home

and you, Romeo

waved to me

from my balcony

and that,  my sweet

is poetry

I couldn’t have written it better

Old Billy Shakes couldn’t dream up

A better plot

A better pair

of culture-crossed lovers

He dared us to do it better

and we tried

and we didn’t die

so I think we can call this

A successful beginning

An anti-ending

The start of a soon to be

Classic love story