I MARRIED YOU
I married you
for all the wrong reasons,
charmed by your
dangerous family history,
by the innocent muscles, bulging
like hidden weapons
under your shirt,
by your naïve ties, the colors
of painted scraps of sunset.
I was charmed too
by your assumptions
about me: my serenity—
that mirror waiting to be cracked,
my flashy acrobatics with knives
in the kitchen
How wrong we both were
about each other,
and how happy we have been.
— Linda Pastan
from Queen of a Rainy Country
When [he] kisses you
he isn't doing anything else.
You're his whole universe..
and the moment is eternal
because he doesn't have any plans
and isn't going anywhere.
Just kissing you...
it's overwhelming.
~ Anon
Love/Life Poems
