Golden Shovel: Our Faithfulness

Nothing promised between us is nothing

promised. And what does it mean, promised.

Sent forward. I’d say that my love of you is

permanent, I believe that nothing

will stop it—but I have not actually promised.

Nor have you spoken any promise. But

we do not lie to each other. Nothing

false will be spoken, as if we have promised

each other the truth. I do promise you that,

I love to make you a promise. It is

an eros, and it is a bond—we are not

just flying around like electrons. It’s performed,

our truth, it holds us together, it is

what I call sacred—and I mean nothing

outside space and time. I love promised

and I love performed—there is nothing between us that

is promised to go through to completion and is

not completed. Nothing promised that is not

performed. Nothing promised that is not performed.