And midway through the date I swear her lips looked shinner than before.  "Did she put on lipgloss?"  The smoke falls into the air and the hookah we shared was carmel apple.  My goodness she is beautiful!

We talked and it was nothing too deep.  Former relationships, things we like to do, smiles and small stares.  She said she would never be with another women.  Then I thought, did she break up with me before we started dating?  Haha, perfect.  The night air felt so good.  She said she was chilly and I had on a jean jacket.  I would have offered it to her, but it went too well with my outfit.  Besides that I didn't want to be too forward.  By the way, i dressed girly and wore my mowhawk.  She said she liked my hair.

Before I left for the lounge, there was a bit of a party happening at my house.  Paint can drinks were flowing, so I was feeling pretty good.  B1 looked at me and said, "damnit you look hot, why do you have to go on a date with a girl?!"  I told him that she asked me out.  He said, "I know a guy will ask you out" or something like that.  I gave him a kiss on the cheek and told him I'd see him later.  The cougar was there and gave me a sexy eye cut and said, "Good luck on your date, but don't have too much fun."  Haha, she's something else.

So to fastforward, in the middle of the date we ate some food and the first thing I ordered to drink was the chia tea latte.  This casbah has the best chia tea.  After the tea we both had a couple glasses of merlot.  The air and my head started to feel a little different.  We sat there for a while with no words. 

Me:  Do you feel like you're floating?
Canary:  (smile)  Yea I do!
Me:  (thinking, this is really nice.) nice!
Canary:  yea!

We talked to the two women next to us.  One was a belly dancer for the place but of course she was off that night.  We then talked to the 3 guys sitting behind us and shared their hookah.  The apracote one was super good.  There was a strawberry one as well.  The guys were in the navy and stationed here in duval.  They were cool.

We got around to why she wouldn't pursue another women.  The last chick did her wrong.  She said it was worse than being with a guy.  I can dig it.  The last girl I slept with wanted to slit her wrist.  Is all that crazy shit worth it?  Then she told me that last week she started back dating her ex-boyfriend, but wasn't sure where it was going to go.  I wasn't too happy to hear that, but I wasn't too sad either.  We talked about our friend in Maryland and then out of nowhere she started jirrating in her seat to the song "Rock the cashah".  That is so something I would do, so I joined her.  I've never met anyone that liked to dance so much.  Maybe my three year old niece.  (That's my baby).  We even talked about dancing.

When the check came, she took the whole thing which was the first in a long time.  Something about that didn't seem right, so I paid for my drinks.  Just before we left, she asked if I wanted to go out with her and other folks on Halloween to dance.  I said yea.

The clean cool air pressed our skin tenderly as we walked out the lounge doors. We talked about the bike again which was still in her car.  She promised it would be out the next day.  It was. 

I met her and some other folks down at the beach the next evening and we danced to reggae.  So much fun...so much fun.  She won a dance contest but then again thats no surprise.

I was thinking about her today in regards to my poem, titled "what can separate us?"
I've been stuck on this damn thing for two weeks now.

Here's what I got:
What can separate us?  What can fate us and take us?  What can make us?  So different and so the same, and point the blame that when she came I felt no shame.  So what can separate us?  A roaring perfection that flies with the aire of suttle smoke falling from your nostrils and holding my thoughts at bay because if my mind starts to wonder I'll want you to stay...I will want her.  And be locked and be free and to be the thin line I cannot see and...

That's what I've got, but it will be revamped.  The point the poem should get across is that no matter what our sins and vices are we are never separted from the love of God.

Point:  If nothing else, at least we will dance.