When I met you back then
in college, before I learned
you lived with your dad
and he threatened to kill
you every night
until you were able to escape
and testify
I
fell
in love
with your
alaskan body
I fell in love
with the way you walked
tried to learn
the way you talked
The keyboard
you played
and the guitar
I shared
your bed we fooled
around in
and shared
our deepest
secrets in
you begging me
not to leave you
for class
and I could never
tell you no but
I always left
feeling like
I burned
bridges everytime
You moved
far away to your mom
and when we met in
Washington again
six years later when I
was on a work trip
you had your own apartment
going strong into 2019
spent the night
talking about how
we came far
how I was a boy
when you met me
and now I'm not
I fell in love
again, but
like a brother
finding a long
lost brother
Wow, we came far.
And I think about how things
changed between us
when you invited me to your
wedding because you're still
straight and into boys
and I was actually happy
told me you thought
about me from time
to time. Kind of
got guilty a bit
since you didn't cross
mine until we met again
but I didnt say that
