dapper oxide
I toast a glass to a newfound love—
one that’s new to you.
To a love that leaves you misty-eyed, witnessing the first comings of spring. Your tears are the April showers that bloom magnolias in May.
To the love that lingers, resurfacing like tidewater. It creeps, softening and forming your tender heart:
A heart that shares its beauty with the ocean tides.
Those very tides that linger in mine.
They crash back into me every time I remember.
And that’s the kind of love I’d cheers to—
the one that’s grown with me.
To grow fond of the tremors of my heartstrings, trembling as love’s warm embrace emanates through my ribcage.
It’s leaves me breathless—
stealing all but the sights of you.
I can only describe them as beautiful.
Love has given me its sign.
My faltering hands now become steady with the knowledge that you’ll be okay,
even without me.
And that’s the kind of love I’ll give you—
the reassurance of an ode
to a newfound love.
To my love that leaves you,
only to return itself again.
A cheers,
to your newfound love.
fading badger
elder island