Lucky

We're so lucky...
In the whole wide world
   of livin' breathin' you's and I's
   but separately apart, we found
Each other...lucky...

And both at once at one time
Simultaneous you might
   but fortunately didn't say
   looked saw understood the way it was
With one another...lucky!

But tie-ups 
Some green slime 
   of disillusions past and 
   present spouse spouses nice
Offspring miscellaneous and respective.

We looked saw touched
What the hell who owns us
   ?inconsequential fights
   ?sex in a bed
Insomniatic 'nother cup if coffee?

We look talk know each other
Livin' breathin' you and I
   but separately apart
   untarnished illusion shiny bright...
Why, I can hardly stand to be so lucky!

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Frederic Parker

Date: 8/10/2022 9:29:00 AM

I've read a few of your poems and find a sarcastic edge to them, and a depth that only comes from paying attention to the world around you...I will read some more... Frederic

Elizabeth Mccann
Date: 8/10/2022 8:25:00 PM

Yes, I too find that reality has layers. That's what interests me. In "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill wrote about sitting on the fence, seeing both sides of everything so that the character was immobilized. Decisions still have to be made! Elizabeth