EXPECTATIONS
I expected that I would have all my fun in my youth,
I expected that sunrises and sunsets would grow dim with my eyesight,
I expected that my taste buds would shrivel right along with my hormones,
But, I hadn’t expected you.
I expected that my statue might shrink inversely to my waist,
I expected that my hair might gray, but, middle age wouldn’t catch me,
I expected that life would go on as it always had,
But, I hadn’t expected you.
I expected that passion would be aligned with art,
I expected that joy would be in things intangible,
I expected that old hearts might fade into solitary oblivion,
But, I hadn’t expected you.
And, what an unexpected surprise,
The you, to my me,
and the summation that equaled us,
I hadn’t expected that.
An unexpected expectation. Is that an oxymoron?
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