Soft Enough To Break
©Schantell Wharton 


Soft Enough To Break

by-Matthew F. Blowers III


Sitting here with you close to me
no one else passing us by matters
Because you mean the most to me
We found each other amidst the crowds
And  we shared gentle conversations
In a room so loud,  but I only heard you.

And truth be told we didn't even have
 to talk, what we saw in each others 
eyes assurred us that we would know 
a righteous love.  

And now here we are again 
in the same place where we met 
and became two over thirty years ago.

Still as much in love as then, still knowing
The hunger that drew us to each other,
As we savor an anniversary cocktail.
You were my calming tonic through 
some tough times and I blessed you 
with many Chardonnay days of 
mellow and yet stimulating moments.  

 So today I toast you and your loveliness 
with a hot toddy 
In honor of your even hotter body, 
and you  smile at me  with a wink 
and a rub of my leg with your foot 
to let me know we can drink to each 
other with more than our eyes later. 
And I bend across the table to savor 
your ruby lips that taste of a strawberry 
Daquiri and they whet my appetite for 
more of such dabbling  to come 

A night of all of my most favorite things
undressing you eagerly  with my eyes 
and then addressing what lies beneath.
 But for now let us nurse our drinks that 
seem a bit on the low side and  order a
bit more to enhance the buzz  of this moment 
in time. Just sitting here with you
With the knowledge that nothing else 
matters except your most
 precious love

What A Time (feat. Niall Horan)

Julia Michaels