A good time to fall in love

Like when you can hang your washing out at the start of Spring

this feels like a good time to fall in love

a good time to feel breath on my cheek

it feels a good time for my hand to be squeezed.

This feels a good time to stare into each others eyes

to have someone to say come on. It’ll be okay.

To say 'we’ll sort this out because it’s you and me.'

This feels like a good time to fall in love.

A good time to say well when I was 25

this thing happened and at the time

it felt like the end of the world

but I guess it’s all turned out okay now

because otherwise I wouldn’t have met you.

At some stage we just stop believing

we need that feeling of being told you're special

you need to remember how the feels

like when you say to a dog “SIT” and it sits.

Tonight feels a good night to lay awake

too happy to go to sleep

this feels a good time to insert her name into song lyrics

this feels a good time to drop her name

into conversations with people who have never met her.

This feels like a good time for evening-long phone calls

a good time to order a bottle of wine and two glasses

today feels a good time to think well maybe things aren’t as bad as I thought

a good time to say ‘two tickets please.’

Maybe this is a good time to start looking after myself

a good time to text and text and text

and then read through all our old texts.

Maybe this is a good time to sit through someone else’s choice of film.

This feels like a good time to fall in love.

A good time to remind ourselves

we are allowed to glow sometimes.