Talk about forever

April 1: indoors & outdoors today. 

We talk about forever, you and I:

little finite humans spilling it between us

like children repeating big words. 

I like to think myself a kind of scientist. 

I like to have a relationship with structure, with fact.  

I like precision. I like to say exactly what I mean. 

And there are limits. 

Which is to say, when you are this near, 

I feel certain that a moment can only hold so much, 

that in this moment I can only love you this much--

Yet there is more, so much beyond; in fact, 

it seems that no collection of moments

could be great enough to fit this in. 

So we talk about forever.