Our Song

10 years ago
we slow danced to “our song”
because you and I
were supposed to
you looked gorgeous
I looked passable
it was Billie Holiday
neither of us remember
what the song was
just that we were the only ones that danced
the entire time
as people watched and smiled
it was a minute-and-a-half
we picked it because it was the shortest
and you kept asking “is it over?”
and I kept saying “soon sweetie”
and it was you and I
and 100 people that drank the wine
and didn’t touch the beer
and it was awkward and exhilarating  

10 years later
none of that matters
as we slow dance in our kitchen
to a song we don’t even know to begin with
that could go on forever for all we care
covered in flour
our hands up
and clasped the same
a little girl in the middle
and it’s you and I and her
and it’s our song
in an empty room
and we’re still the only ones dancing
for ten more years
and ten years after that

© 2021 Lee Kitzis