Green Kitchen

I knew I was in love with you when I decided I wanted to paint my kitchen green. When I pictured a big backyard with color splattered everywhere, flowers and grass and trees filling up all spaces. And when I imagined sipping coffee in yellow mugs, shared happily in the morning time.

I know that I'm in love because when I think of my future, I paint you right into it.

I've always planned for the future, obviously: I'd hope to have a nice job, a healthy, large family, a happy life. But I've never hoped for the future, have never imagined my future so vividly, without limits - I think our future together is limitless. And I'm not saying that, with you, my future will be grand or illustrious or large, but that you're all I need to have a simple, happy, hopeful life.

So I imagine a home with a tiny green kitchen, and us in it, maybe making pancakes on a Sunday morning, and I know I am in love.