Everyone's Next Marriage

We came together looking For a forever going nowhere. Her loss, my loss Same loss: true love. We came together smoking In pipes and filters Making love through stares Into each other's eyes.. Making adjustments Drinking coffee, living In exhausted work weeks That seemed like forty years. We worked on our home Our shanty, our one step At a time. Pretending a marriage, But nodding and winking, Each the other's substitute. We came together dripping Our sex on each other's Brain, rubbers and gloves. Sanitizing our souls From really falling in love. Because that would be cheating On our true love. Gone away, a million miles From here, just a text From our hearts, Outcast and an hour Down the oh well, Of what might have been. We come together, Not so often anymore, We can only learn so much About the art of acting That we are in love.