Once upon a time, you and i ruled the world.
Our little piece of it, anyways.
We were the mermaids and the witches and the princesses of the best backyard i’d ever seen,
We perfected the art of microwave s’mores and
Cannon *****
And we cried the way that only prepubescent girls can.
We had each other until we didn’t
Until we did,
And so it goes.
Our lives look different now.
The world is bigger than it seemed before,
And crueler.
We always talked about how we’d get here one day,
We just never imagined what it would take from us.
Somewhere along the way,
You and i traded in chasing golf ***** for chasing highs.
And dreams.
And men who always seem to overstay their welcome.
At some point,
we learned how to swallow hard
and keep our heads down through the thick of it
And to fight like hell to get to the other side.
Neither one of us made it through unscathed,
We were beaten and broken until we weren’t sure if we even had enough left to make a life worth living.
I couldn’t tell you how we did it,
But ****, i’m glad we managed.
I suspect that you and i,
We’ll be sitting on one another's beds
Recounting each and every scar
until we’re 90.
Maybe one day we’ll upgrade to King sized tempurpedic mattresses with silk sheets.
Maybe one day you’ll be breastfeeding your (second) baby.
Or we’ll be going over my (second) divorce papers
Or we’ll be planning a wedding.
Maybe we’ll be somewhere warm and worthwhile
Or stuck in the same cornfields we’ve always known
(please, god, anywhere but the cornfields)
To be honest,
I have no idea what our talks will look like in 10, 20 years.
What i do know is that it’ll always be you and i
Far too late at night
Staining the comforter with tears and wine and our bleeding hearts,
And for a little while
We’ll remember what it was like to rule the world.
Even just a little piece of it.
a.m.
