The language or the kiss?

"The first kiss is magic. The second is intimate. The third is routine," Raymond Chandler


If you are lucky enough to know someone deeply, necessitating that they are no longer new, then how do you remember the romance again?....Not the pursuit of something new, but simply properly labelling the sweetness that is already there. Romance breathes life into the small spaces between the big things. It's more about the way you look at things than the way someone looks at you. If you have a well-worn lover, hold them close and breathe them in. Wink at them over the din of daily chaos. Compliment them in front of other people. Call them first when you have news. Twist your fingers in the back of their hair at stoplights.


Do it, I tell you, because some people would lay it all down for the very thing you sometimes take for granted. Like shivering, sliding into a cold bed and finding some warm purchase for cold toes, love meets us where we are.