Habits of Courtship

I watched the woman
at the opposite table
two years ago
while we sat together at Zellers.

She knew
if she let her mouth slacken
she would change
to a ten year old girl,

learned how to grow up,
keeping her lips tight
and closing them
right after she spoke.

You were going
but you hadn't gone yet.
There was no wonder
we had found each other.
We shared as much
history as love.