New old lovers

I need not leave a mark

(be it a bruise or a burn)

on what insists to return

and to belong

to me.

We needn't be like the couples in the park

taking god knows how long

to shape

the letters of a love

upon a tree.

Not if we don't intend to escape

from every promise we have made

and the proof sits on your knee.

30/03/2021