Terzanelle

What do I want? What do you want?
To follow you into the dark.
What do I want? What do you want?

For me to say I felt a spark
and then to switch off all the lights,
to follow you into the dark?

For you and I to spend our nights
in whispered vows we’ll just be friends
and then to switch off all the lights?

I hope this feeling never ends.
Until it does, we’ll live in hope,
in whispered vows we’ll just be friends.

Two climbers tethered on a rope
both knowing that the line could fray.
Until it does we’ll live in hope

that we might spend one sunlit day
in peace. For now, it’s just word play.
What do I want? What do you want?
What do I want? What do you want?