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Una Via

Don’t be in too big of a hurry to meet your heroes
You’ll find that amateurs barrow, professionals steal
That they are really just fallible people like you and me
Reality has a way of bringing us down
Crushing our dreams and destroying our fantasies
In the same way she doesn’t care about the things I like
Or how she rates on the Asperger’s scale and I wish she didn’t
Life is not always as if we had imagined
She will never be in love me the way I want her to be
She will never be in love with the language
The way that I am  
She will never appreciate poetry the way I do
Would that she periodically ask what I was writing
That she would long to read my work
Or enter a room to be with me
To put her hand on my shoulder
To look deep into my eyes with lustful desire
That I would not have to guide her through affection
To remind her of her responsibilities as a wife
To pretend that she is my lover
It is true, people do change over time
And there is more than one way to skin a cat
Though I’ve never witnessed anyone doing it
My way, I am convinced, is better
I would rather love and be loved
To hug and kiss, to show affection
And feel physical touch
Than to sit across the empty room
From my beloved
With little interaction, with no touch
And to simply "know" that I am loved
That is everyone in the waiting room
At the doctor’s office
That is solitary confinement  
In a prison of your making
Torture at the hands of someone you love
You were wrong about being right
Maybe we will never be the same
Maybe it is okay to be different
I can handle your lack of affection
But at least,  
Be happy that I like poetry
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Author's Note
Opposites attract, though I wish she were more like me. I wish we had more common interest. We are making it work and have been for a long time. Una Via means One Way.
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