Our life <br />was like <br /> <br />two marbles <br />in a box <br /> <br />chipped...cracked <br /> <br />that a child <br />forgot <br /> <br />or the bric-a <br />-brac down the back <br /> <br />of a sofa <br />a hairy half-sucked humbug <br /> <br />an out-dated coin <br />an earring that wasn't mine <br /> <br />we are socks <br />from the washing machine of life <br /> <br />always one missing <br /> <br />two odd pieces <br />of jigsaw <br /> <br />not even from <br />the same box <br /> <br />it was a puzzle <br /> <br />why we ever <br />got or stayed together. <br /> <br />Who knows <br />maybe I loved <br /> <br />to hate you <br /> <br />just like you <br />hated <br /> <br />to love me <br /> <br />but you did <br />& I did <br /> <br />so we did. <br /> <br />Guess we're in this <br />together <br /> <br />forever. <br /> <br />Oh...Happy Anniversary <br />... lover!<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/yeah-i-hate-you-too/