(Source: justinxavier)

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Would you marry me
or
would you have a coffee with me
and think of having a conversation
that would lead to marriage?

If not right now,
maybe later this evening?

Or late supper.
Or breakfast tomorrow.
Or lunch.
Or tea in the afternoon.
Or a movie.
Or dinner that day after.
Thursday for lunch?
Friday for dinner?

Or perhaps you would go for the weekend with me
to my parents’ home in Provence?

Or, we could stop along the way
and find a little place for ourselves to be alone?

Or just we could have coffee over and over again,
every day until we get to know one another,
and we have the passage of seasons in the cafe.

We could celebrate our anniversary
and then perhaps you would forget
that you are not married to me
and we can have a child.

Because, don’t you think
after we have been together for a year,
it will be time to start to think of these things?

You know, I have known many men.
I mean, I don’t mean to say…
I mean just, you know;
my father, my grandfather,
my brother,
and also men I have known romantically.
And then, too, friends,
and even merely acquaintances.

But, you know,
in life one meets many people,
and it seems to me,
we know so much of another person in the first few moments we meet;
not from what a person says alone,
but from the way they hold their head,
how they listen,
what they do with their hand as they speak
or when they are silent.
And years later,
when these two people break up,
they say:

I should have known from the beginning
In truth, I did know from the beginning.
I saw it in him, or her;
the moment we met,
but I tried to repress the knowledge
because it wasn’t useful at the time.
Because, for whatever reason,
I just wanted to go to bed with him as fast as I could,
or I was lonely,
and so I pretended I didn’t notice,
even though I did know exactly the person he was from the first moment.

I knew,
and so it is with you,
and I think probably it is the same for you with me.

We know one another,
right now from the first moment.
We know so much about one another in just this brief time,
and we have known many people,
and for myself,
I can tell you are one in a million,
and I want to marry you.

I want to marry you,
and have children with you,
and grow old together.

So, I am begging you,
just have coffee with me.

(Source: justinxavier)