Skip to main content

True Love

I don't believe in soul mates, but I do believe
That a life of happiness can be shared
With someone special
We're not teenagers anymore
So the bar is higher
The expectations are raised
In sickness and in health, we promise
It's easy to find someone
Who will share your good times
Buttered popcorn at the movies
Cosmo cocktails at the bar
Dancing the night away
It's easy to find someone
Who will declare, "I love you"
Who will kiss you smoothly
Like melted chocolate on your tongue
It's tragically easy
To hold hands at the park
Feed the pigeons
Go ice skating in the winter
And camping in the summer
Meet each other's families
Buy a bouquet of roses at the grocery store
What is difficult
What is true love
Is staying together through the storms
The ones that put leaks in your roof
The outside forces drip drip dripping
Into your living room
Your beloved grandma's death
Drip
The decision to have kids, or not
Drip
A mental breakdown
Drip
An awkward reunion with an estranged father
Drip
And if your foundation is not strong enough
If there is not enough support in the roof
These drips, big and small
Will flood your home and destroy your love
No, true love isn't about 
Swimming in a calm sea on a clear day
It is hopping on a raft together
And making it through all the downpours
That life has in store


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happiness is Pink Jellybeans

Happiness is jumping in a pool of pink jellybeans Feeling the cool candy on my skin Happiness is enjoying the pleasures of life Without worrying about confessing my sins Whoever said that we are gluttons For biting juicy pears on the beach Must never have felt the sand in their toes They must have placed their own soul out of reach And what about greed? It's not all that bad To bury a pile of chestnuts for the spring All animals do it, so why shouldn't we? If it's greedy to love yourself, let it be Lust is the one that makes pastors blush Yet it's one of the greatest joys in the body A kiss and a dance, laughter and romance Why did we ever label this happiness as naughty? Have you ever seen a cat sad when it naps? It is okay to sometimes be lazy The body needs rest as does the mind Or the world will set fire from the crazy If happiness is a sin, then let me smile in hell Looking up at the do-gooders above For to live is to err, to cry, and to sing Happiness is pink jell...
Post a Comment
Read more

Lost in Rio

Jesus looks over The lost souls and bones below In the jungle sun To witness such beauty And such devastation God painted with one brushstroke Merry men sing Holes in their shoes The dark night lit up By police sirens And the crescent moon Bats flail around Like me, lost in the jungle Eyes glaring all around I hope they're monkeys Or jaguars I hope I can keep a piece of This country with me Safe in my pocket It smells like tropical rain And feels like The clam shells Washed up on the shore It tastes like fried bananas And heavily salted steak Sounds like seabirds cawing Samba on the streets And looks like a page From a storybook About parrots and palm trees Of finding a golden treasure A magnificent, uneasy place When she sun goes down So do we Leaving the night  To the creepy crawlers And innocent stray cats
Post a Comment
Read more

I See the Fire

Every time I close my eyes, I see the fire That aches where you burned me last I am a woman of the earth and the cool soil Where life ferments and earthworms roam I can't survive the lava that pulses beneath The crust of this beautiful land Yellow dandelions piercing the grass Emerald pockmarked with gold I wish sometimes that I wasn't a woman of the earth I wish that I were stronger I wish that my bones were made of steel And my heart of flame So that I wouldn't fall apart at every Crude remark, every Light tug, every Covert attack That rolls off the back of a fire-woman Instead, my skin is transluscent  Like the morning dew  My muscles pieced together With tree sap and mushrooms What's an earth-woman to do In a world engulfed by fire? But root herself firmly to one place Grow a network of twisting underground limbs And create a stable home To escape the chaos of this world
Post a Comment
Read more