A Night To Remember

pretty pink powder covers my eyelids,
sugar-sweet icing on my lips;
this will be a night to remember.

&& you're picking me up in your
baby-blue convertible
                    [to match your eyes]
with the top pulled up so
the wind won't mess up our hair;
oh, i can just    picture    how beautiful we'll be.

me in my mermaid dress,
sparkling like sunlight on the water,
and you trying oh-so-desperately to match
but failing by just-that-much
[but you're so cute when you try that it
just. doesn't. matter.]

&& the cameras will flash, memorializing perfection
while the music pounds and thuds
sending vibrations through my heart,
into your hands.

because only you hold my heart.

so let's make a toast, to hearts and memories,
to spiked punch and daydream believers --
to us, commemorating our one-last-night
    [oh, the air tastes of finality and
      bittersweet goodbyes --
      dear, let's hold on while we can]

because the night's flying by
and it'll never come again;
our lives are going fast,
so let's slow this dance down
just one last time.