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For some reason I am not in the writing mood recently. Maybe I was just overwhelmed by the holiday season:)  Anyway, I saw this poem by Kate Baer and thought it’s adorable. I'd like share it to you___

 

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Dear husband. Dear lover. Dear darling of my

heart. No, I do not want to attend the barbeque

scheduled cruelly over naptime. I do not want to

go to the recital either. Can you tell your sister

that too? In the morning I saw you dancing with

our daughter and for a moment, I almost cried.

I hate when people say I almost cried. Why even

mention it at all?

 

What time will you be home? What time do you

think you may be home? What time should we

wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta

boils over and the baby cries because he misses you?

Oh, before I go — what time will you be home?

 

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if you

died and I had to write a eulogy while lost in my

grief. What would I say? And who would take out

the trash bins on dark Sunday nights or hold our

children while they cried through fever dreams?

 

What time will you be home?

 

Thank you for reading. Until next time.

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• To be honest, I guess your zodiac sign is Taurus as u r good at -beautifulwind- ♀ (318 bytes) () 12/23/2020 postreply 19:27:16

• Thank you raining here and did -小公主- ♀ (76 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 19:14:55

• which parts r adorable? Y I saw a grumbling woman? -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/23/2020 postreply 19:42:08

• the husband must be busy the same as Mr. Flower-To-Wood -忒忒綠- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/23/2020 postreply 19:57:00

• 哈哈哈，剛看到Mr Flower-to-Wood：）我昨天手機有問題，莫名其妙被轉換成英文，結果花董成了deceitful，你成 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 13:16:28

• 你成了Intuit Intuit green：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 13:21:08

• Good poem, thanks for sharing! -才歌- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 09:39:12

• happy holidays! -moiausis- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 10:41:44

• The poem describes the genuine thoughts of an ordinary woman, -甜蟲蟲- ♀ (86 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 10:47:37

• Thank you all! please noticed the title is deleted sentences -小公主- ♀ (177 bytes) () 12/24/2020 postreply 19:16:05