Comments?
Questions?
“You and I”

Why can’t it just be us?
Can’t you and I be together?
There shouldn’t be much fuss.
After all, it needn’t be forever.

I’m not asking you to stay,
Just be around for a while.
And if you want, someday,
You’ll just be a name in a file.

That file’ll stay only in my mind
For possibly many a year,
Until I can find someone as kind
That I can justify calling dear.

After all, I’ll never forget
What keeps you and I together.
Maybe you and I’ll meet once yet
And go horseback riding in fields of heather.

Megan Delia Ratcliff

Spring 1996