Nimbus climbing the stars touched the moon

                                            

I kissed you first in a treebranch kingdom
It was just dark enough to see the moon in your name .
The night sky cloudless and like a dark ocean,
the stars like the moon reflecting on the ocean.
The moon in your name sparkling and the stars in mine.
Just wait Just not too long
Lost in a metaphor-est of a connection
Something that made me want to tell you
that I figured out as a boy in love with words 
that the stars are in my name and they are where I come from
even if we all came from the ocean

joshuA STROther

you said
"I can't see the stars"
"I can't see anything"
I took control of the situation as quickly as possible
I attacked in the moments while your eyes adjusted to treelight.
my lips aimed to have you not eat my mustache
Either it was the realization of my sudden proximity
after you became adjusted to treelife
or the spark of the stars touching the moon
maybe it was just the mustache but you jumped
I blinked hard and I didn't open my eyes trying to be cute
expecting a swift exile from the kingdom.
I received a more passionate full moon.
I could see it with my eyes sealed
I could say it without using a word
I knew I could show you with actions too
I told you I have been writing all day. 
When you were upside down on top of the world.
When you were dreaming about being floating water
When we realized the sky is a reflection of the sea
with white water filled nimbus sky sea bouys
When I realized what we are the moon and stars
The same way we realized you are the sun and I am the sea
And the tree, then upside down on top of the world are all metaphors
for our rise to power in this butterfly monarchy 


And I am good for you too. 



But I waited till we kissed twice to tell you
I waited till you asked me for the story twice
I had to ask myself to write it twice twice
and today when you told me that the moon is in your name
I knew we had to act at once
It makes too much sense to not mean anything
Since it is at once I understand But twice is okay too
How many times will you make me ask
if i can sew you to my side
will you inheriting a kingdom with me? 

1. and I don't normally write in first person....but you are just the first person and and and and