One day, one day
We will sit on that bench 
under the lights 
Overlooking the river 
which you sweetly 
think is the sea

One day, one day
You will drown 
I will drown 
One day, one day 
I will drown you 
You will drown me
In happiness 
In smiling nuts
In pistachios 

That truck that’s travelled
all the way from Mexico 
on its way to the stores 
loaded with pistachios 
will crash into the pavement 
where we are sitting 

One day,one day
We will be submerged
up to our eyeballs
in pistachios fallen from that truck 
We will eat our way out
to safe passage

Drunk on happiness  
Drunk on pistachio amino acid 
Pistachio serotonin
Serotonin neurotransmitter
We will feel focussed, 
calm, contented, steady footed, 
emotionally stable

One day, one day 
We will be happy 
just by being in each others’ company 
Soon, not now, but soon
Right now, this day, today, 
there is work to be done

I will eat a pistachio 
every day in your absence 
One day, I will feel more
will feel focussed, 
calm, contented, steady footed, 
emotionally stable

And one day, one day 
when there are no more 
pistachios left for me to eat
I hope that is the day,the day 
we sit on that bench again under the lights 
Overlooking the river 
which you sweetly think is the sea
And when you place a handful of pistachios in my palm,
I will refuse
because I will be happy again just seeing you smile 
One day, one day.