The two sat down with their Relationship <br />and a soup-bowl of their mutual memories <br />the two lovers complaining that the other <br />had not given what they needed. <br />Each spoke after a sip of tainted memory. <br /> <br />She said 'You never thought of what I needed <br />that which pleased you is what mattered. <br />I was left with kids and bills as you escaped <br />to job and night out with the boys. <br />He said: <br />I thought I had married a princess and as it turns out <br />I had hired my own critic who's never satisfied. <br />And whittled down I have only 15 years and thirty extra pounds to show for it. <br />With that he took his tablespoon and sipped a double dip. <br /> <br />Finally relationship spoke: <br /> <br />All these years I have seen you two value the combat <br />more than I. <br />These years I have starved while neither of you could give me <br />the small attention which might have saved the marriage. <br /> <br />Neither of you looked to nurture me so concerned each of you with I. <br />And now you wonder if I skin and bone can be revived <br />my answer sure is to starve a thing for years on end <br />is not to wonder then it does not survive. <br /> <br />The two looked at one another. <br />Relationship looking really ill, said hoarsely. <br />'Now each of you start sentences that begin with we.' <br /> <br />to be continued<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-three-of-us-3/
