the first thing

didn’t seem to notice the way

that they _________ when your

eyes met theirs…didn’t seem to

notice it at all.

 

didn’t think about anything except

their beautiful ________ & their

sexy _______ & all in all,

the butterflies roamed free in the

stomach, making what seemed to be

a mundane life before,

exciting now.

 

as the frequency of your rendezvous

began to increase, the heart rates

pitter-pattered faster & faster,

told all your friends, family, started to

invest larger portions of your time

to each other &

then

it

happened.

 

remember the first time that they had

_________?  you don’t, really, because

when it happened first, you ignored it, or

perhaps your whole body/mind were so

overcome with their presence & the

newness of the thing that in the moment

_________ never really bothered you at

all.

 

but now, now that the
“magic”

is dwindling,

this thing, this

_________,

which seemed like nothing before,

seems like the first in a series of dominoes

bent on the inevitable destruction of

something that had been established solely on

the grounds of

desperation.