Happiness

How did this happiness happen?

I remember: grayness and the ashes

of the sun's ember dying on the aspen

leaves and on the puddled asphalt

when we went outside for a smoke.

We spoke of old habits. It was all a big joke.

How did this happiness happen?

- Suddenly! In a fraction

of a second, that's all it took!

- An instant attraction?

- All by the book!

- Not quite, we were both hesitant,

neither of us wanted to make...

- But everything seemed so pleasant then,

we didn't want to awake!

- I remember everything lucidly.

the bed-sheets, the throbbing pulse.

the curves of your body were glued to me.

- Is that why you convulsed?

- Electricity in my veins. I shook.

We were two live wires.

- A mere second is all it took

to ignite the fire.

- I remember I answered your call,

You asked: "Lunch at Cappy's?"

- You said, "yes," and that’s really all

that it took to be happy....