Our Garden

You beaconed me down your street

The other day

I saw you in the garden

For the very first time

An emblem of our future

You secured something, perhaps a tendril

To something tall, perhaps a rod

My soul to your love

That will be us together 

Planting our love and feeding ourselves

I promise I’ll never do that again

The next time I see you in a garden

It will be ours

And I won’t be trying to hide my face 

I won’t drive a little faster

When you see me

I won’t be afraid that I scared you

Though I believe you understand

How I could’ve been so risky

That my longing overpowered me

Or I just knew it would be safe just that once

Someday, we will be free from all of that

Someday, I will see you in our garden

From our window

And I will come out to join you

Just you and me in our garden

Free and at peace

Like the flowers we grow

Like the love that we sow