Someday
Dearest,
After I got back from grocery shopping today I was doing some paperwork for you when I found the stash of cards and poems I sent/gave you. I cried all afternoon. Nothing was accomplished. What was all the fussing about? Why did we waste so much time? Why did we think we would live forever? Why didn't I write you a poem everyday? What else was so important? We bumbled along through our lives as if we had forever when the time was so short it may as well have been a day. Now I'm left here alone, mostly dead, cold and lonely, watching the snow fall out the window and wishing my life was done. It is really, there's so little time left. People don't understand, they don't want to hear about my problems they're too busy bumbling along in their own misery screwing up their own lives. How do you tell people that time is so short? Why don't they listen? I feel like a may fly that only lives for one day and already the sun is setting. There just isn't enough time to waste arguing, fighting and fussing. How stupid are people anyway? How stupid were we?
You know Gregory, the marine mammal biologist, once told me. "People think dolphins are dumb because all they do is play in the ocean, eat, and have sex. Dolphins think people are dumb because they don't spend their lives that way. Did I ever tell you this? I think I agree with the dolphins. I want to tell everyone that if there's anything they want to do in their lives, go do it, NOW!! There's no time to waste.
That's not what I wanted to talk about, I wanted to talk about time. How it goes faster and faster until it's all gone before you know it. There's no one to argue with when the time is up. It's just up, that's all. No appeals. End of story.
There are no happy endings, you were right, I was wrong.
Your Ken
After I got back from grocery shopping today I was doing some paperwork for you when I found the stash of cards and poems I sent/gave you. I cried all afternoon. Nothing was accomplished. What was all the fussing about? Why did we waste so much time? Why did we think we would live forever? Why didn't I write you a poem everyday? What else was so important? We bumbled along through our lives as if we had forever when the time was so short it may as well have been a day. Now I'm left here alone, mostly dead, cold and lonely, watching the snow fall out the window and wishing my life was done. It is really, there's so little time left. People don't understand, they don't want to hear about my problems they're too busy bumbling along in their own misery screwing up their own lives. How do you tell people that time is so short? Why don't they listen? I feel like a may fly that only lives for one day and already the sun is setting. There just isn't enough time to waste arguing, fighting and fussing. How stupid are people anyway? How stupid were we?
You know Gregory, the marine mammal biologist, once told me. "People think dolphins are dumb because all they do is play in the ocean, eat, and have sex. Dolphins think people are dumb because they don't spend their lives that way. Did I ever tell you this? I think I agree with the dolphins. I want to tell everyone that if there's anything they want to do in their lives, go do it, NOW!! There's no time to waste.
That's not what I wanted to talk about, I wanted to talk about time. How it goes faster and faster until it's all gone before you know it. There's no one to argue with when the time is up. It's just up, that's all. No appeals. End of story.
There are no happy endings, you were right, I was wrong.
Your Ken
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