in the morning kitchen worrying together
through evening bouts of doubt
Are the children safe?
The grand kids okay?
Will the K-car start tomorrow?
Can we afford to fix it if it won’t?
What’s on cable TV tonight?
Is your dog getting enough cheese?
Did your one true love leave you
looking like a frigging penguin
standing alone outside the prom hall
with that stupid look on your face?
What about those wild nights
and the long rides
and the long talks?
Where did those endless roads lead?
But for your one true love to someone else
and you shifting through an empty cupboard.
crushed so long ago by your one true love
or have you mended and moved on
to find the one other person in this world
who could love you this much?
Do the stitches in your mended heart still sting?
Do they twitter and twitch with reminded regrets
on those days when nothing will go your way
and you long for the one true love who got away,
forgetting for an instant the one who holds your hand?
- By Anthony Buccino
From AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty
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Copyright © 2010 by Anthony Buccino
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