Personal Possessions
We picked out things we wanted
A rug for your house
A sofa for mine
Pictures and too personal things
Crystal from friends
Silver from family
Beds the kids jumped on until they sagged
Jewelry and tools
Paintings and piano
Things I bought for you
Gifts from you to me
We divided our history
Along sentimental lines
Financial lines
Practical lines
Choices we had once resisted
Made right again by the tastes we no longer shared
Content to see the dimensions merging
Monochromes of yours and mine
They were only things
Mirrors of the way we once were
Records of our times
We argued less now than when they were new
We can get others now
We picked up our things and said goodbye
Like acquaintances at camp
Best of friends for summer
But the bus is leaving
And we follow
With our things
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