A HAPPY MARRIAGE

A Poem by Rene Velez

And you walked in...
my mind reeling different
scenarios before your
third step,

a first meeting
of spilled coffee,
simple jokes
and easy laughs

numbers exchanged,
from formal to
tennis shoes and
comfortable dates,

parental dinner
invitations weighing
thoughts and ambitions,
displaying arrows
in the heart,

to gold rings,
wedding invitations,
Champagne and cake,
into the beginnings
of..

and the thought fades
with you walking
out that coffee shop
door, into the winter snow
heading to that place,
where I will never
see you again.