You know what I keep wondering about

How most of us understand that life is a transient thing

A flash of shimmering, golden fish swimming rapidly with the stream

 

That ‘This too shall pass’ applies to almost everything

That any glimmer of permanence is a magician’s illusion

That we must eat change for breakfast-lunch-dinner (whether we like it or not)

 

For when we are elated, there’s a little part of us that knows it’ll be over too soon

For when we can’t stop crying in the shower, we are telling ourselves the pain will end soon

For when we raged against someone enough to want to kill them, even that dissolved all too soon

 

Yet

 

We seem unable to see that love (in any of its human forms) is no different

That ‘This too shall pass’ applies to OHHHH EVERYTHING

Instead, we latch on to ‘Forever’s and 'Forevermore's and ‘Ever-After’s

 

You see, I wish I knew it then

 

That last time I dropped you off at the airport… I wish I knew it then

Not because it was the last time I saw you (it wasn't)

But because it was the last time I couldn’t wait to see you again