If you let me choose,
I would choose to experience this moment –
from a perspective that is close and yet always foreign to me,

I would choose:

to see the world through your eyes,
to hear how you feel the beat,
to taste how you enjoy something sweet.

I would choose to get as close to you as another human can possibly be,

Intimately wrapped in your psyche –

learning about your stoicism journey
and your love of photography.
listening to stories of your time at USC
and how you built a home overseas.

Mhmm – I ‘d choose you.

I know you’d accept my invitation,
letting me explore all the parts of you I wish to.

What I wonder is what you would find,
if you chose to choose me like I chose to choose you?

Or selfishly – I wonder what I would learn if someone dared to choose me
– the same way I dare to choose.