My first thought this morning is just how cruel it can be
\nto be a woman
\nriding these ridiculous waves
\nlike one who is learning to surf
\nbarely mounting the board before harshly being
\nshoved under water again
\noften feeling like you have snagged your foot
\nand might just as well
\nstay under
\nfind a cave
\nwhen my husband joins me for coffee I tell him
\ntoday I\u2019m going to write about how very sore my __________ are
\nreally isn\u2019t it best, if something is sore..\u00a0 that everyone should know
\nwith a smirk in my direction,
\nbarely looking up from his paper
\nI dare you, he says
\nalready I can feel myself softening…<\/p>\n
as my day goes on, I suppose something in my book
\nhas me thinking about love
\nor what it is, \u00a0we think
\nis
\nlove
\nearly misguided relationships ensnared like a bad habit
\nso very long ago, sometimes cringe worthy
\nnow without any bitterness, hardly to be recognized
\na brief whirlwind of a romance with someone in pure teenage fashion
\nI thought I\u2019d just never live without, he lived in another town
\nand now I have some trouble remembering
\nhis name
\nalso the one wistfully known as, \u2018the one that got away\u2019\u2026\u00a0 (of my own doing, of course)
\nthen too, the first time I thought it was real
\nwell and truly seduced by the killer smile of a smooth talker
\nwho in all manner of a classic romance
\nstole me away,
\nthen rather quickly (to no surprise) broke my heart
\nwho also, I guess one could say
\nhelped it mend by continued connection
\nmuch more wisely, warming to a
\nfriendship
\nthat still holds<\/p>\n
and then to this
\nto find the magical comfort of a love
\nso grand as this one, and yet
\nso very
\nsimple
\nwith someone I had always known and just not
\nknown
\nit is this I cherish every day
\nstill there is a smile and gratitude in,\u00a0 from time to time
\nthinking of the steps along the way<\/p>\n
to knowing love
\nto recognizing love
\nand to finding oneself in the comfort
\nof love<\/p>\n
my husband and I go out for a bit of thrift shopping
\nwhere he knows how much I like to poke through boxes of
\nold Christmas ornaments
\nbefore long I have found a couple of treasures that
\nso easily make my heart
\nshine
\non the way home filled with joy for my new finds
\nand also, even a few hours
\ntogether
\nand the great blessings.. \u00a0of this
\nI tell him<\/p>\n
if only they had known
\nhow easily I could have been got
\nfor just 25 cents\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n
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