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I WANT US<br />
BY TYLER KNOTT GREGSON<br />
I want this. I want that. I want photos of us. I want to<br />
be proud of us out loud. I want to kiss you. I want to<br />
smile and laugh. I want to make you giggle, and I want<br />
to make you sigh, and I want to take your breath away,<br />
and I want to dance with you at people’s weddings,<br />
and I want to pick you up and carry you when your<br />
feet are tired.<br />
I want to wait until you are almost asleep and then<br />
kiss your nose and make you laugh so hard with some<br />
secret joke that your belly hurts and you smack me for<br />
waking you all the way up so we have to get out of bed<br />
and sit and watch the city lights while eating a bowl<br />
of cereal at 1:38 am.<br />
I want us. I want the smell of pancakes when it’s me<br />
that cooks them and the sun hasn’t yet woken. I want<br />
ears that hear the words I spill instead of eyes that<br />
read them. I want notebooks black with ink from<br />
all the details I noticed from all the times I sat and<br />
marveled at the way you spin through an hour.
“<br />
WE REFLECT THE GREATEST<br />
STORY OF A KING AND<br />
HIS BRIDE.<br />
”<br />
— BETHANY BARNARD, COVENANT
“<br />
WE LOVED WITH A LOVE<br />
THAT WAS MORE THAN<br />
LOVE.<br />
”<br />
— EDGAR ALLAN POE
“<br />
TEST THE DEPTHS OF ME,<br />
THERE IS NOTHING I CAN’T HOLD.<br />
FOR YOU, I’M ENDLESS.<br />
”<br />
— DAILY HAIKU ON LOVE BY TYLER KNOTT GREGSON
“<br />
AN EXCELLENT WIFE, WHO CAN<br />
FIND? FOR HER WORTH IS FAR<br />
ABOVE JEWELS. THE HEART OF HER<br />
HUSBAND TRUSTS IN HER, AND HE<br />
WILL HAVE NO LACK OF GAIN.<br />
”<br />
PROVERBS 31:10-31
“<br />
I WILL GET DOWN LOW, SO I<br />
CAN LIFT YOU HIGHER.<br />
”<br />
— DIERKS BENTLEY, RISER
“<br />
IT’S LIKE COMING HOME<br />
AFTER A LONG TRIP. THAT’S<br />
WHAT LOVE IS LIKE. IT’S<br />
LIKE COMING HOME.<br />
”<br />
— PIPER CHAPMAN, WHAT IS LOVE?
“<br />
YOU ARE A MINUTE OF QUIET<br />
IN A LOUD, SHOUTING<br />
WORLD.<br />
”<br />
— GABRIEL GLADFLY