Cosmic Barroom Vows

Does it come naturally to you

when you tilt your head just so,

and craft the perfect sentence

after hours of silence

“I can’t wait to hold you in my arms again,

to feel stars in my heart”

Does it come naturally to you

to greet me in my mother tongue,

to whisper te iubesc

and heal the ancestral wounds

of feeling less than because of my origins

my grandmother smiling from heaven

Does it come naturally to you

to hand me weekly tower moments,

I died and was reborn

five times in five months

Shiva’s destruction,

fire that purifies so I can rebuild

And does it come naturally to you

to cosmically kiss my soul

to sear your initials into it

to awaken that pact we made

in some celestial bar

“Hey, want to meet in the next lifetime

and live this rapturous, exhilarating thing together?”

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