Our first date
Got rained out.
Do you remember?
It was a picnic.
Well, it was supposed to be a picnic.
You had always told me
That you thought a first date of
Watching the autumn sunset
Would be breathtaking.
It was spring, not fall, and
I didn't want to wait
That long
To take you out, not when
You were finally mine.
So I tried to
Make our first date
As close to your dream
As possible.
I tried to plan it for the evening
But
You had classes in the evening,
And
Every day you didn't have classes
I would be stuck at work
When the sun decided to set.
So we planned to watch the sun
Rise instead.
I packed all your favorite food
And we left for a little flowery garden
In the park
At five in the morning.
When we arrived,
The sun was beginning to wake up
Providing just enough light
To start setting up the picnic.
As the sun rose,
We talked and laughed and
Filled up on little strawberry candies
And some mint gum.
But then we realized that
It wasn't just fog we were seeing.
It was clouds
Heavy with rain
And I remember wondering
How we were able to see the sun
Completely
Rise
Before the clouds covered the sun
And washed the earth clean.
It was as if they had known
We were there and
We needed to see the sunrise.
And they had waited
Just for us
To be ready.
After that we stayed out in the rain
For a while
And played around like children
Avoiding their bedtime.
And while we danced I thought,
"I want to be both
Your sunrise that gives you hope
And
Your clouds that wash the pain away,
Forever
And always."