the last fifty years
with her
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 our 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.
Have you carried around
your broken heart
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
On Kindle
Copyright © 2010 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.
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