Don't Wait For Something Bad

Conversations are like energies

that pull stems together

and render them into an embraceA

without feeling forced.

Before I learned I was good

at writing his name on his back,

as I traced our lives and he sketched

mine. I was already there, tearing up

at the thought of love ending.

Just fall in love, I told myself.

don't wait for something bad.

Just fall in love. Things won't

get bad.