[If] not love
Tomorrow
I’ll be tangled in a teaching web
administering words.
Tonight, tho,
not knowing your last name
or origins
I smile to see you
enter.
Following your every step
I synchronize to your syncopation
figure your feints, mostly,
laugh when I’m caught off-guard
We match each other’s pressure
Then let each other go.
Since it’s not love,
it must be
tango
where all’s fair too.