And maybe it’s embarrassing
Because it’s not always good
But I’ve not always done the age
-appropriate things that I should
so why start now?
Refused children, developed a decent
Career despite myself, bottomed out but
Got clean and healthy, re-discovered endorphins
stayed married somehow
Maybe that’s all of my life in a nutshell
But now I read these silly
notes from middle school,
love letters from college
boyfriends and air-mail envelopes
- par avion - from women friends
contain adventures we had, musings,
stories, aspirations for our lives ahead -
lives we now live and I wonder:
do any of us have
what we envisioned?
Some days are dreary -
Doing dishes, answering voice mail,
Filing taxes and tending endless
Needs of children - others are golden -
That trip to Portugal, births and sunsets,
family and college reunions,
A really good meal
All - I would speculate - are fortunately
pretty well grounded, but these missives
From the past remind me that
Once upon a time
We flew
