The desk

You know what’s funny… the desk.

In the first days of the pandemic when the home office started
I was looking for a work desk for my apartment.
I had an idea of what kind of a desk I want
yet was hesitating to choose “the one”.

One day getting back from my lunch break walk,
I saw a table outside my building, and stopped.
The desk was exactly what I dreamed of.
I beamed with luck and carried it off
As it came with a note “for free: enjoy it”
I was a living example of: “when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”.

Months later I met you.
The night when we could not get away from each other’s eyes you said
“I don’t want you to disappear. I will clean my desk and you can work from here”
We went to my place to pick up my laptop
you sat down on the couch, observed me while I packed, and
looking at my desk you smiled
“That is an identical desk to mine”

You know what’s funny… this desk.
When I got it, I tried to find it online and... I couldn’t…
I gave up and just gratefully accepted it as a little piece of magic
And what are the odds that you’d have the same mysterious desk?!
Yet who am I to question magic.