Familiarity
or how I came to love you
Custom is comfort and rarity an adventure,
Nothing I should have done brought me to you.
Life moves forward: Time gives no debenture,
Will moves the muscle and chance follows through.
Rites aren't sacrifice until they are hollow,
Honor and privilege are easy to bear.
The bland and the bitter can be too hard to swallow,
But not knowing is hard when I feel you're not there.
The ways of the world are smooth and unmoving,
The appearance and feeling jar and derail;
The stage of our being is ever unsettling,
But I always try to arrive without fail.
Where were we going and what were we doing,
That I had to wait and wonder so long?
How did you know and when did you know it,
And how did you get me to follow along?
The words and the seasons were steps laid together,
We thought that one game would be our life;
But sunlight and season betray their own reason,
And cradles of beauty can still lead to strife.
Let us be on, now, let's shed foul distemper,
Neither let's doubt forever again,
Be my sweet lover and ever remember,
That this path won't lead to forever again. 
