ANSWERS

What attracted me to you
in the first place?
A college freshman
who happened upon
another youthful face?

We both looked fourteen.
Unsophisticated and inexperienced.
We latched onto each other’s
prepubescent facades.

What on earth did I see in you?
You were jealous and hurtful.
I touched your soft bare cheek
and felt a future that I must carry out.

I felt my sons, yet to come.
Sons through our imperfections,
who would end the destructive
cycles we spun.

Beautiful children,
sensitive adults who would become
the parents we could never be.
Mature individuals with hearts
for family and home.