For Ginger

Twenty years is a long time layered with angst and mayhem colored with dreams and triumphs surviving and coping and when i almost lost you because i was stubborn and indignant filled with grief you were so pungent with the scent of chemotherapy and death i was brave, but you were braver we have lingered in the puddles of our life together laughing and crying and taking long naps through the addictions and betrayals the dimissals and the lack of good judgement to end up here i love you mostly because you get it i'm so tightly wound and too damn layed back because you love me unconditionally and you let me keep the cats that follow me home