I like you

hard to say
what's left
but to stare this drink
down

caught her looking
at least a handful
ago
cheating on the outside
betting on me
to sit back and
be me

damn, this glass had
me
wrote my name on a card
tucked it into a deck
shuffled

magic tricks aside
i'm here again
maybe
we're in love
as we wake up
and kiss the night
together
in this

we each hold
something
we each have
our place

i, like you
an acquired taste

Reviews

[Clockwork]

I like the word play that you build to in that last stanza. Stanza four also has a certain something that I find very appealing. I think it has a lot to do with the tone you have with the lines "magic tricks aside
i'm here again/maybe/we're in love." I think its a kind of sincerity that says, there are no more games, we are who we are, and as you say later: "we each have/our place." It was enjoyable to watch this one unfold and as both people acquired new tastes. Well done.

[ChemicalMadness]

i appreciate your feedback. thank you so much for stopping by!
CM

[K. Louis]

Lol...hmm an acquired taste--that taste lingered in my mouth after this read. No decks-No tricks. Well done CM!

[ChemicalMadness]

;) Thank YOU, K!

[Dana Alsamsam]

ah beautiful word play with the punctuation! this was a lovely way to say that we all are who we are and even if others have to learn to like us, it's those little individualities that make us what and who we are. i enjoy how you've threaded this concept with strings of romance as well.

i always admire your ability to juxtapose simplicity and complexity. lovely job.

[ChemicalMadness]

I appreciate your observations on this one, Dana...i had a number of things in mind here, but i really like your take....thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me :)

[Frieda P]

Sounds like a night at the pub, reaching, trying to fulfill a need, so much to give and no one's glass to fill, nice one CM!

[Ed Hart]

better an acquired taste, than acquired waste in haste...so many things seem to have our name on them...so many of us like you, and are like you

[ChemicalMadness]

Good to be amongst friends, Ed

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i also like the play on the phrasing of "i like you" for the title, and then "i, like you" in the last stanza.

cheating on the outside, maybe in love or maybe roving eyes.

again, nicely abstract...so we get our own tone from it.

excellent mood set in this piece.

jacob

[ChemicalMadness]

Thanks, Jacob....I almost tinkered with this one a bit more. I'm sort of glad I didn't. Some pieces deserve more and some just are what they are, no matter what you try....

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

I, like you
an acquired taste -- Interesting juxtaposition of ideas here...the play on the phrase "I like you" and "I, like you". Great lines, by the way.

magic tricks aside
i'm here again
maybe
we're in love -- now, these were my favorite lines. Such nonchalance in the face of such an intense feeling...love. What is love anyway? Do we really know it when we have it? When we do have it, is it what we expected?

A great write, my friend.

[ChemicalMadness]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks so much for your kind words...