mine and yours

all the talk about babies and weddings and all the updates on facebook, friends and friends of friends -- yeah, they're pretty far removed -- and then GOOD friends, like my roommate from a couple years back, pregnant, due in late july with a little girl whose name they're keeping secret and whose room they want to paint blue, who she insists will be a giants fan and he a redskins fan, who they're buying a "family car" for and giving up the hot vw convertible we used to drive down rock creek parkway with the windows down and tom petty playing... and then he sends me pictures of rings and asks my opinion, time to make their little family official... in the next month or so he'll ask the question and she'll say yes and then it'll be three, their dog, their condo, with the new hardwood floors and the blue nursery...

the wholeness, the comfort of it, the THIS IS MINE,
the smell of baby cheeks,
baby kisses,
baby fingers,
looking at something that your love created it and loving it more than you love each other and even yourself,
deciding -- enough playing,
you are mine, i am yours,
forever.
here is our baby
our house
our dog
this is where we live
this is what we like to do
this is how we love.

i can't wait for that feeling.