This is What I Want From You

I’ve made my peace with my need
so my needs are not so great

I want to sit with you on your porch swing
or couch if you’d prefer beneath the air conditioning

I want you to tell me how you played hopscotch on the playground
or didn’t because you were too frightened to ask for a friend
and no one asked

Tell me how your heart was broken and
of the hearts you broke tell me over iced cream and
a walk along the shore

let’s make a memory of it before your legs
are too worn to carry you

This is what I want

that you will take my stories and give me yours
that you will not dismiss in fear my reaching for you
that you will share with me like a friend

laughs and fears and answers
to crossword puzzles and sights of strangers
passing by and snow falling in winter fractal memories
and chipmunks scurrying across roots in spring fractal memories
the hum of a hummingbird’s wings

that you will seek me too
that you will want to