A Nasty Business

What business did you have with a little girl like that? She, barely 21 and you, nearing 30.

All your tormented lovers chastising you, it's not right. It wasn't right. All I wanted to be was near you, always. And all you wanted was your own, impossible happiness.

And so we danced this tiresome dance, so fabricated, so strenuous, running on the stench of your own selfish indifference and the fumes of my willful ignorance. And when anyone asked, I insisted, the most harmonious perfume.

To the Children

Stay away from broken people. You can't fix them; only they, themselves can. At the worst, you will be poisoned. At the least, you will waste precious time. Do keep company with people who laugh and find humor in all things. Don't be afraid to be close to someone. Be honest to yourself and others. Stay away from the dishonest. They have too much to hide.

Proposal

Not to say we will be, not to say we won't be, but if we were to get married because it's not when yet but only a tiny enormous fragile menacing wonderful miraculous solemn if, but if we were to get married, I would love you every day and for the rest of my life. Every inch of me for every inch of you. I would be unafraid to share every piece of me if needed and set aside my self-importance to enjoy every day we have and overcome every challenge we face together.

You'd be a dithering fool to think no other couple goes into it thinking the same, she smirks, scornfully, bitterly.

I can't change other couples but neither can I change myself. I am wired to love wholly and with little reserve, and if we were to be married, I would have nothing to fear and no reserve to have.

Also, if we were to get married, I'd make a damn cute bride. It'd be a simple affair with style for miles. Just saying.