SPECIAL DELIVERY

...
Between the dark and the daylight
......When the light is beginning to taper
Comes a break in pre-occupation
.......While Meghann delivers the paper.
She's been to the mailbox with mama,
.......Put everything there in a bag,
Then lifted and dropped and pushed it
.......In a veritable fireman's drag
For two isn't tall....at all.
....
Somehow all the days tribulations
.......Seem to fade and to leave me free
While collecting the hugs and the kisses
......Of my special delivery.
Advertisements or checks or billings
......Are essence of love that lingers;
The whole of my life brightly colored
......By an angel with sticky fingers;
For two is the bestest of all!
....
From Life's A Bitch by GeoE
With thanks to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1985