Shawn L. Bird

I covet little papers
Adorned with your precise handwriting
Conveying adoration
Enumerating my suitability.

I covet little papers
You laugh at the saccharin sentimentality
Contrived emotionality
of your romantic immaturity

I covet little papers
Embarrassing legacy of first feeling
Precious pieces of paper
declaring what is now history

I covet little papers
memories of what was dreamt of then
A future that came true
Recorded for posterity

I covet little papers
of what you declared so long ago
promises then are the actions
of our long domesticity.