We Knew Just Friends Couldn't Work

I missed you more than I should have.
The days we didn’t talk
Actually made it easier to get on.
And we both knew just friends couldn’t work.
Weeks went by and we finally decided
We could hang out.
But when I innocently bent over
And pressed my lips to the top of your head,
And when you sat up and looked at me
Asking with your eyes if that was
What you thought it was,
I knew.
After a few agonizing seconds of
Wondering if we were really going to do this,
You kissed me as if there weren’t weeks
Between our lips’ last meeting.
Same taste, same touch, same tenderness.
Everything—the truth that we’ll never work out,
The pep talk I gave myself on the way over,
The insurmountable differences—it all just
Melted away.
And what was left was you and me,
Our lips dancing and your hands in my hair
On your bed in our quiet town,
The world spinning madly on outside your window.
We knew just friends couldn’t work.