We made it official
on Facebook. It isn’t real until
all of our friends and
past lovers have seen it scrawled
across a blue and white screen.
We add our names
to a list of hopeful couples
starting a life on the internet,
arranging the pixels to pronounce
their love.
One more post to add
to the parade
of babies and weddings
and breakups.
We made it official, didn’t we?
We’re going to try and the
whole, whole world of the
web knows, so it’s real.
I suppose, long ago
we would have
called up the paper,
sent out formal little cards
that folks would have held
in their bare hands.
Not today, today we pin
a note to the interwebs,
awaiting loving responses,
knowing we are finally moving
forward on our timelines.
Today we tell all those
half-hearted social media
flirtations, no more.
Today, we join together
on Facebook, facing unknown
internet territory,
pictures of our faces
telling the world.
