Love is Growing Fat Together

There was casual separation
And a stiffness to their position
A sense of awkwardness to their expression
And surreptitious glances of hesitation.

He was going to say something,
But then,
There was something else that would have been interrupted.
She was going to say something,
But then,
There was more meaning to silence.

But for the sake of convention,
And conversation's sake,
Some action had to be made.
So they glanced at their menus
Two strangers on a date.
Call it serendipity, or simply fate-
But the first thing they said
Together, was, "Blueberry cheesecake".

Six years down the line
Amidst the clattering of china and glass
An abstract pattern of white camellias,
The husband and wife looked away,

But when it came to vows of forever
They glanced at each other
And smiled, knowing no words needed to be said
After six years of regular blueberry cheesecake.

6th May, 2014