write an endless love story for you 

i could write straight through the night and never be satisfied 

page after page, a hundred thousand volumes about your smile alone 

still it wouldn’t be enough 

and i could be sad about how my father sees this as perverse

or my mother buries it under the rug, as far down as it will go 

but that’s not why i’m here tonight.

i’m spilling ink for the way you turn my heartbeat to champagne 

lovestruck nerves, bubbles humming through my body day and night 

i want to see your halo up close.

want to touch you, use my fingertips to tell you how much another person can be loved. 

the world is so vast 

the sky, endless

and i want to love you in every single part of it.