Survival Made

“I love you.”
The words have always been
more punctuation than promise..
A way to heighten hopes,
before heading out the door.
An exclamation mark,
that put too much pressure
on the words previous.
Reckless abandon,
that rustled up some writer’s block,
and left us both at a loss for longing.
For, we are survivalists,
and survival never meant taking your shoes off.
It meant never going farther than the foyer,
for fear of what may lie under the bed.