Picture Perfect

What do you do
When you’ve found
Someone who makes
your heart smile.
Makes you go that extra mile
Laughs at your corny jokes.
Calls you 2 minutes
after leaving the phone with you
saying he needs to
hear your soft snores
while you sleep so he tells his mom
to get to know you
Cause the only one
He wants to wake up to is you
Prays with you at 11:OO pm
Because God is our strength
Holds your hands with gentleness
Looks you straight in the eyes
Says `I love you’
Tightens your grip and
Says `Im here forever’
You say `I love you too’
Cause you feel the same way
You stay put because
You have the one element he needs
He has the one element you need
And together we make a compound.
So you compound
this memory into a picture
But listen
What do you do
When this picture gets distorted
Your cheese becomes a please
When speckles begin to appear
You see images
in the background advance
Murmuring , speaking loud
to the point where they’re
disrupting the cameraman
Words pick up like
He’s not good enough
Don’t like the color of his tie
Suit is too cheap
Wait for someone I prefer,
a Sherlock Holmes
But wait a minute.
I thought this was my picture
Thought it was only going to be
You & I
Who invited these critics?
They look familiar
I know them enough to say
We share the same blood
So what do you do
When they try to advance forward
Squeeze in between us
And he’s almost falling off the set
It’s not jealousy because
I’ve taken 16 pictures with them already
Only three with him
Do I call cut?
If only these uninvited guests would
stay in their box,
it would be picture perfect.
Do I take the picture somewhere else?
No, the former member of the CIA
is bound to find us.
Or can I take the picture
and Photoshop it?
Can I go ahead
And leave them in the background
And bound them from the foreground
If you’re holding my hands
And if your arms are around my waist
How can they get through?
They can’t, only if God serves as the glue
If God is for us, who can be against us
The one bit of happiness I have
Being ripped out of my hold
They may bite like a snake
Poison like a viper
But God is my cure
So what do I do?
Take four.