So we are where we were at the beginning
you and i, amid the waste of so many years
and lives spent living amongst one another
I put away your things in the places I have
learned that you expect to find them and also
I know the places where you like to put away my things
I know that we must not try to eat breakfast together
you must have the newspaper fresh, even if I put it back
so that I have learned to get my news from public radio
You have learned to like my cooking, even when I cannot
seem to remember that you do not like pears, except in salad
and I have started to use ketchup on my turkey at Thanksgiving
Now that we have achieved this balance, we find ourselves alone
again, with no children to referee our lives and focus our attention
so we are where we were at the beginning, and I wonder, how long
Can we learn to fall in love with the people we have become, you and I?
Jun 22, 2012
Jun 22, 2012 at 9:58 AM UTC
So we are where we were at the beginning
you and i, amid the waste of so many years
and lives spent living amongst one another
I put away your things in the places I have
learned that you expect to find them and also
I know the places where you like to put away my things
I know that we must not try to eat breakfast together
you must have the newspaper fresh, even if I put it back
so that I have learned to get my news from public radio
You have learned to like my cooking, even when I cannot
seem to remember that you do not like pears, except in salad
and I have started to use ketchup on my turkey at Thanksgiving
Now that we have achieved this balance, we find ourselves alone
again, with no children to referee our lives and focus our attention
so we are where we were at the beginning, and I wonder, how long
Can we learn to fall in love with the people we have become, you and I?
