Growing Pains

 

You've been with me so long

I can't remember

When you weren't.

 

Your life has meshed with mine

So unnoticeably,

Quietly.

 

Can you imagine

We've grown the same way,

The same time.

 

It only seems natural

I find something new,

You do too!

 

I know what interests you

Because it interests

Me too.

 

But perhaps it is bad

To be so alike.

I don't know.

 

Maybe this is the way

That you and I

Aren't alike.

 

It seems all along

You've known something

That I don't

 

And that explains somehow

Why you've married

Someone else.

 

 

B. Benjamin                                                                                         

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