-Eternity is Ours-

It's the simple things we do
that have transformed our nightmares into dreams,
Our anger and anguish into potent passion,
the past into smudges on cracked camera lenses meant to
   see new faces, new light..... new places.

  It is the simple things we have done that have pulled our ambitions
from miles
     away
                 into an arm's length of love.

No amount of cash or fabulous friends
   Nor supermodel bodies or reputations fit for fame
could manage to overwhelm the strength of an inside joke

a smile, a flash of the eyes
       or a twirl of your fingertips
in my hair as we sleep.

          - we have built something more powerful than trivial "love"-
trivial need
superficial adoration.

                 

          The nights tangled in covers with no intentions of ever getting free.
          The nights spent speaking of what was to come without
words,
without motion
    
                             Only your eyes on mine.
             [ I have nothing to hide. No secrets nor stories  
                          that you will never hear ]

while pretending
    to watch half-assed horror films rented for fun,
with no intentions
of ever         resisting        each other's touch when the film
was finished...
               [ Or before it had even started. ]


               And when the hours flew by and                
          the clock slapped sleep in our faces, we'd laugh in its hands
          and eat chocolate cake until 4 am,

An act of childish rebellion, a vow and a promise -
       "The world outside means nothing, tomorrow is ours.."

          

          And when the TV gleam died, and the plates were all empty.
inhibition would find it's place on the floor in a dirty pile of jeans, socks and shoes.

and I would find myself free. With you.

Knowing one day...one day,</i>
  That the bed will be ours to wake in each other's voices
  And the time won't matter and we'll make our own choices,
  That our clothes will share closets, and the camera our faces,
  That we'll never look back with different people...in different places

We will still be in love..with no need to chase, bargain or beg.
  For it's the simple things we do...
    the little things that people are too busy bulldozing over to let grow...

And when the years fly by and                
the clock slaps time in our faces, we'll laugh in its hands
          and hold each other until morning,

                               Only your eyes on mine.


And as they close,
   an act of adoring rebellion, a vow and a promise held true -

                     
             "Tommorrow means nothing...eternity is ours."