Ever Since You Got Me
Janet Kuypers
(01/24/12)
I’ve been hanging here
ever since you got me
when the two of you
were first happy
every once in a while
one of you looks at me
reflects on what it was like
and I think you smile then
I sit here now
looking out at your world
seeing how you live now
and I wonder
because I don’t think
you notice it
but I see the changes
of how you live now
I don’t think you’re unhappy
I can tell you’re not really happy,
but I don’t think you’re about
to end your life or anything
but as I was saying,
though I can’t see much
from where I’m at,
I don’t think you’re unhappy,
but you don’t seem
to have the same pep in your step
I think the both of you
have lost something
I only know this because...
look at me, I know
what you looked like then
your faces, and your happiness
is burned into me forever
you two are holding each other
and beaming with happiness
like the whole world’s ahead of you
wait... is that it?
is it that life is passing you by?
I mean, I think I understand,
I know I am fading with each passing year
but I look at you two walking around,
like you’re drones now,
going through the motions,
not looking like life is in your hands
they way you did
when you created me.
(this is a poem about a wedding photo)
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