Casual Love

I didn’t clean the house before you came over

we met up in the woods in the clothes I was already wearing

you got in my bed while I still had morning breath

and I don’t know you yet

it’s been days, mere instances together,

I don’t know you yet

it’s been years and I don’t know you

yet

I’m hopeful I never will

I don’t want to know the future;

love is here now

it’s not asking me to dress up

or be more in my feminine

or provide for a lifestyle

love is not booking me flights, it’s what is there when I land, what drove me to go through that ordeal.

Casual love

easy and free

funny how I was told it was a life of leaving

low on commitment

dropping and running away

yet freedom led me, time and again

back where I truly felt at home

and I see the backs of my loved ones only when they face a bright and exciting future

better than a promise,

I have an ongoing reality

low stakes love, thick on the ground

everywhere I turn

nowhere to run

here now with food to eat

here now cleaning the floors

here now making a mess

everywhere I go

I am only coming home.