College Dating

Honestly, why can't we be back in high school? It was simpler. You have one of your friends run up to me and ask for my number. Then, I go home and sometime after dinner I'd receive a call and you're on the other end. We talk about school and what we're watching on TV, make plans to meet up during a free period the next day. We talk about pointless things until one of our parents tells us it's late and get off the damn phone. The next day, I'll see you down the hall, waiting by my locker. There, it'll start, innocently and simply.

No, we had to grow up and life made things more complicated. Life itself is more complicated. We go away to our "other lives". We're apart for a majority of the year and in that time, we meet new people. Life pulls "us" apart before we even have the chance to do the preliminaries. For the short time when we're breathing the same air, we reconnect like time hasn't passed. But then, unlike high school, there is new dangers. One day, someone new is going to walk into one of our lives, and we'll forget each other. We'll forget the sparks that flew between us in darken theaters and late night omelets. Soon, we'll be nothing more than summer dates and a thanksgiving hook up.

But I don't want that. I don't want another memory. I have enough of them. But, it's not up to me. It necessarily isn't up to you either. Whatever you want to call it, fate- destiny- coincidence?, it's out of our hands. The most I can ask from you is- don't forget me. I don't need guarantees and I don't need promises. I just need to know you're holding on to that thin string that tugs my heart and hoping for same as me - time. Just more time. More time before this becomes another "college memory."

"I'm miles from where you are,

I lay down on the cold ground

and I pray that something picks me up

and sets me down in your warm arms."