If you were here

 

 If you were here,

we'd meet at Le French Cafe for croissants and coffee

bundled in down jackets

masks around our necks

it's a strange time

If you were here and COVID was not,

I'd sneak over to your house for a margarita,

we'd laugh like idiots, me especially, and 

then I'd todder back home, happy and sated.

.we will have to wait for better days.

If you were here, we would discuss family matters,

you would be kind about mine, and I, about yours. 

Families, in all stripes, are complicated and involve much

compromise.

If you were here and COVID was not,

I would look over your shoulder while you were cooking

because I'm doing that now

and it's fun

but especially, if you were here,

I could look directly into your eyes, and see the 

rapidly changing expressions dance across your face.

If you were here,

I would not have to miss you.