Falling in love
is like ice cream
but falling in love with you
Is Ben and Jerry’s chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
over a warm brownie
topped with gooey sweet things
on a hot day…
Falling in love is a summer blockbuster:
Glorious explosions and comfortable plotline
falling in love with you
is like those precious art flicks that nobody else knows about
that took our breath away
and took away forever the way we used to see the world…
falling in love is my favorite song from last Fall
falling in love with you
is my favorite moments in my favorite songs ever…
It’s that expectant silence before the climax of Under Pressure
staying in love
making it work
doing the work
mantaining something precious…
In the abstract
it’s not even worth writing poems about…
(We write poems that start with:
“I just fell in love”
and “I used to be in love”
but who ever rages passionately that they still love?
In the abstract… Why bother.)
But staying in love with you
staying in love with you
is the way a crisp wine runs around my tongue
chasing away the crispy tang of a perfect bite of salad…
staying in love with you
is laying down at the end of a day
and replaying it for the sheer joy of it all…
it’s sinking into a hammock and finding that sweet spot of perfect comfort-balance
marveling at the blue sky behind white clouds behind green leaves overhead
Jeff's deep thoughts 