There was a time when your urgency was exciting.
A time when you were excited by urgency.
You held my hand and left the dishes behind.
The dishes could wait. I couldn’t.
But that was then, and now is now.
That kind of urgency doesn’t exit for the older couple.
Dishes are urgent.
Dishes have to be cleared, stacked and put
Neatly into their correct place.
The dishes have replaced passion.
The dishes are your passion.
And just as the dishes must be in their correct place,
I must, too.
So I just simply slink away and die a little more inside
When I think of the time before dishes were urgent.