the future

a quiet moment, in our home playing my songs for her on piano discussing our future I decided to play a new one she cried at the crescendo told me she loved it but when I turned, ready to kneel, she was already gone apparently unaware of the stark proposal from the other room she began remarking on some unremarkable thing sheepishly, I pursued her box in hand "You forgot the best part", I said and the rest is future