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June 15, 2015

Can We Take Our Time?

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Although the days pass quickly, I am hoping we can just take our time.

Let’s first dip our toes into the rushing waters of possibility, and see how it feels—letting us warm up gently to the idea.

Let’s pretend that tomorrow doesn’t exist, and instead of there being a deadline or finish line to all of this…Let’s just take our time.

Can we take our time and yet rush towards passion?

I’m in no hurry, and I have nowhere else I need, or rather want, to be—but still I want us to just take our time.

This is the best part—the discovery of another, the learning and the knowing. These are memories that happen in an instant, and the history that is being written in the now.

I have no desire to plan for tomorrow, yet I want to know that you’ll still be there regardless.

Silently, in the shadows—not because that’s where we belong—but because even in the spaces of solitude you’ll know I am still there.

I don’t really know what will happen down and over and along the bumps of this life. And I don’t know who I will be, or even who you will be—but still I just want us to take our time to see where this journey leads us if we let it.

Over sweet tea vodka and lemonade in a mason jar, crickets chirping and fireflies lighting up the coming night—I sit and bite my bottom lip wondering how it is that I want it now, but yet want to wait at the same time.

It’s not the anticipation I am after, but just the slow release of what will be coming into our patient existence.

I am in no rush to see where this will go, although casual isn’t in our vocabulary—I don’t need much right now, simply because I am far too in love with the hopeful sunrise to fear the unknown of a new day.

I’m not shy or tender, and don’t think I am going to change my mind—because this time we both know that won’t happen, but still I am hoping we can take our time.

I don’t want this to be like any other. I have no desire to change who you are and the life you have built, but I know that sometimes it feels like we are on a speeding train when we are together.

Sometimes things in life move at their own pace, and while I don’t want to slow down, I do just want to take our time.

I want to learn the ways of you, and I want to map every spot on your body that makes you gasp.

I want space in togetherness—although I’ve been alone for so long, I still crave rambling nights where I sit up until the sun kisses the sky in pink and golden ecstasy. So drunk on island whiskey and the overflow of too many sweet words that my heart spills out once my mind stops looking.

I crave your touch, and the moments of secrecy that happen underneath the hazy indigo light of the moon, and while I don’t really want you to leave—I still want to take my time.

I want the time to miss you.

I want to taste you in bits and pieces, I want to enjoy every moment without wondering why we are. I don’t want to have a plan, and I don’t want you to see a timeline or end result…even if our hearts whisper it in the darkness, let’s just pretend we don’t hear it—for now.

Let’s just take our time.

Let’s travel around and down back roads dusted with moon shadows, let’s sit underneath a hot and humid sky and watch the heat lightening travel across the field thick with wildflowers perfuming the midnight air—let’s pretend that the now is all there is.

Not because we fear the future, but because we are enjoying the present too much to want to be anywhere other than where we are.

So, let’s take our time, and though I say this, know that I won’t be able to keep my lips away from yours, and tomorrow I may change my mind completely.

But for now, in the spaces of the stars touching upon fingertips, and the graze of my hair against your skin, let’s promise, if even for just a moment, or a day…

To just take our time.

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Relephant Read: 

How I’d like to Fall in Love with You.

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Author: Kate Rose

Editor: Renee Jahnke

Image Credit: Madelena Pestana-Flickr

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