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I See You
It’s everyone’s dream, isn’t it?
“Love at first sight.”
Even those of us romantics
who know that “ love at hindsight”
is more realistic,
and perhaps even more romantic-
even we long to have
love at first sight
every morning, waking up next to our beloved.
Wasn’t that part of what marriage promised?
To have and to hold
and to wake up next to
every day.
But that isn’t what we have had.
For richer?
So far it’s been poorer.
In sickness more than health.
It’s been a long five years
since we said those vows.
Vows meant to be the roots
of a strong, new, family tree-
a tree that began to grow
so soon after our wedding day,
and then stopped short
even more quickly.
