maybe, just maybe, when love comes knocking it won’t pound so hard that the house collapses in on itself. 

maybe it’s scratch and tap at first, rattle the doorknob some. i’ll be too busy to notice. so it’ll knock more persistently, rap rap rap

BANG

rap rap rap rap tap

i’ll invite it inside. we’ll chat over coffee

tendrils of steam engulf

us

in the chambers of my heart. 

and then i’ll smile and wonder how I tolerated anything else.