We Are Redundant
When we are alone
Speech is redundant.
If we use it we laugh
Saying the same words in unison
“We are redundant” we say.
Almost fifty years of redundancy
And yet, the most comfortable times,
The most enjoyable moments
The easiest times are when
it is the two of us, for we become
The fifteen and sixteen year old kids
We were when we first met
I see you as seventeen sometimes,
But that is a stretch. You call me your nine-year-old boy
Because of my tommish ways, and that is fine.
There is nothing as comfortable as our alone time.
We love having the children, and the grandchildren
But when they leave and it becomes our hearty
World of two, easy patterns, simple foods,
quick to laugh at the same lines in every movie
That is when we become us again.
And it is home.
You are home.
Home is us.
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