STORIES (last edited 4/11/00)

It was there (the remains of love)
I felt it while watching you swim in the watery pool
In the afternoon
While poking fun at your ... day-glo boxers
While you performed your courtship dance made for laughter

While poking your waist and face and fun and I felt it
in the living room
while watching the film with you

you always were a human radiator, 
generating ungodly amounts of heat in the hot summer time.
And yet we wrapped around each other, as if it was winter,
My legs, sweaty, sticking to the couch
Funny how our bodies always had a way of fitting like puzzle pieces.
Even in the hot days of august, sweat collecting upon our backs

And there we were, and there I was
thinking to myself, God, I know this feeling almost frightning
I've been here before like a reoccuring dream
Or some wicked case of fated déjà vu and you.
It is this that I have been contemplating

And now , I see that it is true
I see that I can no longer philosophize , or justify
to hide and deny this feeling
Blaming it's existence on the weather
Blaming it's existence --- trying to explain it to myself as if it was a mere
Coincidence, trying to drain all emotion out of this

And I no longer feel that I am being a fool for letting these emotions linger within
for what? For being true to what's inside me?

Trying to tell myself, I don't know what love is
But I did and I do 

Yes, it seems no matter what turn we take, what road we chose
Our bond that is between us, it draws me towards you 
Just when I think it's over, I turn around and look at you
and I realize
that this story is not done.