First Date

There is a beauty in the unravelling.
It is the slow unwind
That will intertwine
You sitting before me.

There has been 37 years
Of drunk nights and sober moments,
Of sickness and health,
Of sweaty evenings and gentle times,
Of insecurities and revelations,
Of loss and love…
Bent and folded, over and over again;
To forge the man sitting before you.

There is beauty in the unravelling.
It is the slow unwind
That will intertwine
You sitting before me…

So let’s not do it tonight.
We have our entire lives,
To discover that we were right.