"If I Knew I Could, I Would..."

Gypsy Mama's Prompt:

 "If I knew I could, I would."

If I could go back to that day...

13 years ago
to see your face as we pulled into
the parking lot of the hardware store.


"Why are we stopping here?"  I asked.

"Because I need to," you answered.

"Oh, Okay."

You were acting strange and I didn't know why.

  I felt a slight fear.  What did this mean?

  I wondered if something was wrong. 

What was going on?

And then you pulled out a little box.

  You opened it. 

And there it was: 

the most amazing ring I'd ever seen in my life.

"So will you do it?

Will you marry me?"
you asked.


I couldn't believe it was true.

This was why you stopped in the parking lot?
This amazing moment with this amazing ring.
Could this really be true?

"Are you kidding me?" I asked.

Then you looked at me in unbelief
and a slight look of agitation.
So, of course,
I gave you the answer
that we both knew was meant to be.

Then you drove me back to your parents home to show them.

 Shortly thereafter, you took me for a walk...

 

  up to the farm field behind their house: 

a field brilliant with mustard flower, 

 a simple weed 

that seemed to shout the feelings of my heart.

 

Now every spring, I see the fields, and I remember.

  And if I knew I could go back to that moment, I would;

because...

I do.




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