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November 16
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I teach, I parent, I learn, I contemplate. I am constantly putting my toe in the water. I dove in, now I'm trying to keep my head above the surface.

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JANUARY 5, 2012 1:58PM

I Want What You Have (poetry)

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I want what you have.

The way your husband looks at you

with adoration

admiration

affection

joy

pride.

I want what you have

four family members on a Christmas card

all together

intact.

I want what you have

wedding albums of family and friends

the same man standing next to you

as the one in the picture.

I want what you have

a man who will get out of his chair

and attend to childish needs

while you sip on your wine

and eat olives.

I want what you have

a man who appears

with a mojito in his hand

as you tread in the door.

I want what you have

the light in his eyes

and yours

the exchange of glances

at a fifteen year old inside joke

made on your honeymoon.

 

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Ah we don't know what goes on behind closed does SF but I do know the longing for what it all appears to be.
Enjoyed.
The grass is always greener... but you wrote it beautifully.~r
The wine & olives stanza is really evocative for me. Good poem.
I looked for years for someone that would know I exist in the world other than in the kitchen or being someone that you take your frustrations out on.
I finally found him after 49 years and I will never give him up.
May 2012 fill you with the dreams and love you so deserve.:)
HUGGGGGGGGG
Hmm, smooth and sad, I feel a tug in my heart.
They sound too perfect, somehow...
I'm not complaining, I have a very good man. But this particular couple is special...and I know them well. They have their issues, but they have each other.
Sounds lovely. Thank you for sharing. Definitely looks like the track my husband and I are on. :)
Oh, I remember feeling like this... You can still have some of those and be happy...and I'll wish for them for you...
I want what you have

the light in his eyes

and yours

the exchange of glances...

envy is parasitic. i know this well.


sameness-of-man is a double edged sword.

longing for appearance is just...desire...and
false desire must be destroyed if
we are to experience such stuff as
"adoration

admiration

affection

joy

pride.
Sweetfeet I'm laughing about your comment, "they have their issues, but they have each other..." Boy could THAT go either way!
After thinking about, I'll pass.
But it sounds nice and all...
I don't know sweetfeet, I thought I had a pretty great relationship, but even Geo has never met me at the door with a Mojito! (Ah, but I know what you're saying, & you say it very well...)
I really this. Subtle but telling.
Your so fine today or when you wrote this.... Joan H is right too!
Nice poem; speaks for many from the outside.

R♥
Love it, sweetfeet! Rated.
A wonderful poem! There really are marriages like this but I suspect not many.
Yeah, but he probably forgets to take out the trash. ;)
Very nice poem, really brings up that feeling of jealousy.
You have captured that feeling of longing for what is out of reach. Illusion and dreams! But love is real.
It's never perfect. Be careful what you idealize. I'm not saying it isn't preferable, but it's never perfect.

(I'm not a meet at the door with a mojito kind of husband. I do, however, take out the garbage.)

If you didn't know the couple, I'd be tempted to answer this with an old poem called Richard Cory.
Oh don't we all want that? Yes, yes! Beautifully said, but you already know, "everything that glitters..........".
Sad but lovely and oh, so human. But really what we all want is simply to feel loved and needed, with more happy moments than unhappy ones, however it is we get there. The mistake we make is in thinking the image we associate with happiness and love is what we want, and not the happiness and love itself.