ROMANCE PART 1

When the motivation to wear your best tie

is tied to the reason you always go to sleep late

and why you gravitate to one side of the table

instead of staying where you were first able

When hours can both slow down and speed up

in your time together because you think of each

movement like the right step to a swing-dance

and every touch like an opportune chance

When dreaming is no longer a depressing topic

that you are ashamed to speak of but is that

which you must reasonably consider because

reality is no longer bitter

When you look for every common thread

to talk about despite its irrelevance and you

consistently consider competition a threat

to the attention you strive to get

When you are truthfully unaware of how to act

because you finally feel warm and happy

and are pummeling into an emotional trance,

you are finally experiencing your first romance.