Seven thousand square feet
more space than I could ever even have
imagined
before I met you.
Seven thousand square feet
more space than we have
any business dreaming about
nothing to our names but a
fifth-year teaching salary in rural Vermont and
an idea fleshed out and just
waiting to happen.
Seven thousand square feet
the answer when I
held your hand in bed one night and asked
if money wasn’t an obstacle
if your app thrives like we
believe it will
what home would we build?
Seven thousand square feet
that I sketched out in
sloppy rectangles
on the pages of a notebook
lined paper
math work from college still
cluttering the first pages
Seven thousand square feet
for the low, low price of
1.2 million dollars
give or take
not including the acre of land
to build it on
paid for with
a whole lot of love
and a dream that
might not actually be so crazy
and as we sat there
at my kitchen table
huddled around that notebook
I could see it:
Seven thousand square feet
of love
of laughter
of dreaming
and a lifetime shared with you.
Music Without Melody 