three pools

by SLucia

Posted to Action Poetry on 2004-06-02 18:59:00

we hiked out in the dark
because you’d never been there,
and i wanted to keep you to myself
for as long as i could

you fell in before
we even made the first pool,
just your right foot
-you were fine you said-
so we kept going

by the time we found our way
to pool two and its waterfall,
it was raining
i slipped and fell in,
my left foot
-it was fine i said-
so we kept going

when we got to pool three,
you had both feet wet
and it was completely dark
and raining sort of hard

i smiled at you
as i looked back,
to make sure you were keeping up
and at the top,
we held hands
and walked back to the van

where you took off
your wet shoes
and looked at me
like if you hadn’t
been wet and cold and in the dark,
you would have kissed me
before your foot
had even had the chance
to slip into the river