for keeps

[metaphorliteral]

There's something sacred-- and profane--
about trying to construct perfection
from the ordinary and everyday.
Take these people you love
and envision something beyond
the weeks allotted to you--
Imagine cats and companionship,
support and dinner every night,
pretending to be heroes on the weekends.
Consider closeness, longed-for intimacy,
hands held, hair stroked,
holding each other up through the long nights.