EarthEvolution

I fell in love with you in the time it took for the cygnets that huddled around their mother by the recreational lake to lose their grey feathers, to lose their trust of humans with bread; the time it took for the sky to empty itself, to erase itself, leaving only chem trails blurred amongst the ashen clouds; the time it took for them to tear down the derelict house outside of town, the one we signed a petition for while shopping for tartan scarves and books by authors with alliterating names; the time it took a bunch of bored kids to cover the side of a block of flats with graffiti. You dared me to write a poem in pen on the last blank br