The Forever Commitment Poem by David Knox

Forgive me if this is just a feeling
Sorry if this isn't true
But nothing has felt so sure, so enduring, so sealing
With just one pen stroke I feel my life is set, it's been pinned down, who
Who I am, who I will be
Who I will spend my life with, who will spend her life with me

It's not saying I love you
It's not asking will you marry me?
It's not saying I do

But somehow it feels stronger, feels non-repudiable, forever
Feels like an all-in endeavor
Just to write you a letter
A simple letter, a letter about anything
It could be mundane, it could be one word, and yet it's stronger than 'I do'
It's more potent than 'Will you marry me? '
It's more of a commitment than 'I love you'
Even if you don't love me too
It feels that way...

Maybe because it'd make a great movie
Maybe because it feels cliche
Maybe it'd just mean we keep in touch

I don't think I'm- that we're ready for that
Ready for this...
But I want it... I want you
This feels like the only way
I don't know what exactly I'd say
I hope you love me too
But this is fast... too fast, too much commitment
This is the only way, it's proven itself to be, it has to be
This is the only way, part of me wants it to be, it needs to be
This is the only way for me

How else could I stay in touch with you?
Nothing else works
How else could we even talk?
There are too many conversations that we leave in dearth
How else can we be friends?
Or even be in love

I can't write to you, I must write to you, I need to write to you
I won't write to you, I want to write you, I long to write to you
I.... for now, I will simply write about you