Rainbows and roses in her dreams
never quite enter reality.
So she learned to find
romance in the mundane…
when he takes out the trash
when he remembers to run water
in his just-used dishes
or
when his discarded towel actually lands
in the laundry basket.
It’s peculiar
his love language, so practical, so
far removed from her own:
the one she feeds with magic,
whispered giggles and
fairy dust.
Well, someone did tell her once
probably when she was very young, that
opposites attract.
She can’t help but think now
26 years in,
perhaps she took that saying a little too literally.
She dreams of a someone with feelings more like her own,
while she loves the one she has the best she can –
still deeply mining each passing moment
for even a twinkle of gold.
2/7/24
Karen McCaskey 