I choose you

I don’t need a Sara Bareilles song

to tell me that you, finally, are the one.

Though, I acknowledge I have been searching

for what feels like forever pre-us.

But then every night when we video call,

and you’re still in your pajamas from before,

and I have a blanket over me constantly fighting it

because it keeps covering my camera,

I know I have finally found the one I’ve been looking for,

even though I have the contrast down low,

I see you clearly, and your skin glows.

Even though I have the volume down,

I know your voice, because you call to me often

and I can’t resist you- why would I want to?

And every night, things are cut short between us,

because my eyelids droop, and my battery is dying,

but we won’t go out, not tonight, or any other night-

we’ve got too much energy.