cold water

feels warm

when you’re freezing

the way

sixty degrees in the summer

requires a hoodie

and

sixty degrees in the winter

requires shorts

the way

nine pm

feels early

in your twenties

and late

in your seventies

the way

you love every job

for the first month

and then hate it

forevermore

the way

cold water

feels warm

when you’re freezing

is the way

you show me

your love