tempranillo

i'm sitting here drinking hey mambo wine
and, it's ok
i'm trying it out
but i don't really like it, too acid

what i wish i were drinking right now
is this tempranillo i tasted the other day
i thought it was made by elim but now i think
that may not be right
it may be from the elim region of spain
because
surely it'd be google-able otherwise

are we better
stronger
do you think
for the fact that we've taken longer to get together
than most marriages last in toto

i know it was about a year ago
that i was telling you how lucky i feel
for getting to develop the sweet and pure romantic love
over time with you in a way that shouldn't really be possible

now it's a year later
and it feels so much more
i don't want to say mature, exactly
but it's developed, for me anyway, where i feel like
we're together
it's confusing and weird
maybe i'm not representing it well

anyway
i tasted this wine
and i thought you would like it
although, strangely, i have no idea what you like in a wine

tempranillo
is made from the very first grapes harvested
the little early ones
although, of course they aren't necessarily little
that's just a diminutive
they are luscious black grapes
full of body and spice and this stuff i'm wanting to drink with you
after it breathes a little
it's sublime, truly

and
i feel like
you love me more
than you did a year ago
maybe that's wrong, maybe you just love me
and there's no more or less to equate