Volume 2 , Number 10
October , 1997
On
by Dean Shutt
it's funny really
how you adapt your standards changetruth be told
there was a time when i could not eat alonetimes change
now the meal brings solitude a chance to reflectoh there are rough patches
when trapped without a book or a companioni am forced then
to be truly alone nothing but my thoughts to accompany mei miss you some then
like the missing piece to a very large puzzleyou know what the picture is
not much is missing yet it isn't quite wholeyes day by day i am happy
well if not happy then at least contenti've moved on you see
accepted life's terms learned to reach within my graspi have built a life without you
and yet not replaced you in iti suppose i should be sad
or at the very least pause for a moments reflectioni don't though
i stumble on building my puzzlecontent with the knowledge
that i've done quite well while missing a piece