Tick in a Box

You know the saying ‘tick all the boxes’

The man of my life is the tick in all of mine

But think about the tick – what am I saying?

Is it a tick of approval laid out in a plain 2D?

Is it a tick in a 3D box that I can touch and feel?

Maybe it’s the tick of a clock – for eternity?

Or is the tick a parasite feeding off me?

Does the tick in a box really say all I want to say?

To put you in a 2D box would be utterly fatal

You would be flat - lifeless – you couldn’t breathe

Who can sustain something which is so shallow?

I could have depth and meaning from a 3D box

But should depth and meaning be imprisoned?

How can we explore all we would want in a box?

A box contained – restricting within those walls

So what is eternity? Should we even be thinking time?

Enjoy each moment together – why count the time

What about all that we share between time - apart?

Time is for the deadlines - not for our love life

Counting time – is to wish our lives away

Maybe you could be the arthropod or parasite?

You would want me, crave me, to always need me

You would want to be permanently attached to me

You would absorb me and you could always be with me

If you were a tick could I or should I put you in a box?

I could put you in a box – but you would wither and die

In summary do you tick all of my boxes?

Thanks to you a tick in a box says so much more

I want you to need me, want me, crave me

To always want to be attached to me

But I want you in my life longer than a tick can live

Longer than the tick of any clock –can tick - who’s counting?

I also want to touch you and feel you absorb all about you

Explore and experience everything without boundaries of a box

What I want and how I feel and what you do to me

How happy I am – how my world is perfect with you in it

You have too much depth, connection and importance to me

To ever be summarized by ticks in boxes

By Just Me