Just Imagine

Just imagine get-out-of-love-free-cards,
good-byes without impact,
new love with ease,
lovers without baggage.

Love with expectation,
commitment without fear,
unacceptable compromises,
independence and union, understood.

Just imagine love stories with plausible possibilities,
affection between midnight and dawn,
afternoons at the Ritz,
and Saturdays at two.

Tête-à-têtes over coffee,
holding hands in the park,
after arguments, and over dinner,
between breathless surrender,
before business trips, and during sleepless nights.

Just imagine beginnings after endings,
middles with do-overs,
endings with new beginnings,
and love at every turn, without thought
or consequence, evaluation, or regret.

Honesty in your lover's eyes,
doubt over which pizza toppings,
and not in your lover's words.
Trust in kind,
belief unquestioned.

Just imagine love without walls,
phobia, or long lasting memory.
Love like a toddler out for a stroll,
wobble, wobble, wobble, and plunk,
butt meets the floor and its back up again for
another spin on the red brick floor.

Blending of flesh an electric tingle,
like socks fresh out of the dryer,
the brush of a kiss on your lips,
a blustery spring wind whispering of possibility.
Fuzzy logic, champagne bubbles trapped,
desire boiling off your skin
like a vapor.

Just imagine a cushion of billowy passion clouds,
Love tunes piped in your head,
a life that is not dot-to-dot,
explosive first kisses,
little tremors exploding throughout,
falling instantly, and forever after,
a believer in love at first touch.

Hands fitting together,
glove over hand, second skin,
and knowing those hands belonged on your body.
Losing awareness, and finding a little paradise
in the arms of a lover,
seeing love in the eyes, feeling it in the kiss
left on your check,
in the caress.

Just imagine surrendering your heart
without expectation,
knowing your heart will break.
Just imagine love as it was designed,
and how it was meant to be enjoyed,
without fear,
and give it freely, again
and again.

<in honor of National Poetry Month>