The Peanut Chronicles

What is love? Is it an undying forever thing? Where your life is lightened up with the very thought of the person? Is it a passionate bonding of two people over and over? Is it staying up all night holding your hair when you are sick? Is it praying for the person when you don’t believe in god? Is it splashing around in fountains in public in the middle of February? Is it dancing with a pineapple in the middle of the grocery store? Is it listening to your dreams and fears and hopes? Is it stealing the heat of your partner by putting your cold feet between their thighs at night? Is it someone who makes you cum? Is it creating a new life together? Is it cracking jokes at midnight when you know very well the other person isn’t asleep either? Is it being able to cry on the shoulder of the partner with no questions asked? Is it being able to be vulnerable in front of a person with no worries of retaliation?

"This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on"

Is it being able to ask stupid questions and not get stupid answers? Is it the patience of a partner when you are learning new things? Is it the partner who gets up all night with the colicky baby? Is it constantly using the better car? Is it dancing in the middle of a parking lot to a song on the car radio while everyone watches? Is it having been supported while unemployed? Is it someone who reads you children’s stories when you are sleepy? Is it someone who understands that the death of a pet is traumatizing, even if you are an adult? Is it someone who would not think twice about physically harming someone who has hurt you? Is it when you can’t stop thinking about the person even when you are doing the most mundane things? Is it someone who brushes your hair?

"Turning circles when time again
It cuts like a knife oh yeah
If you love me got to know for sure
Cos it takes something more this time
Than sweet sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
And when you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet"

Is it someone who isn’t afraid to look stupid in front of his or her friends? Is it the person who makes up silly songs to sing to you when you are feeling blue? Is it someone who cooks dinner for you? Is it someone who takes care of you when you are in the hospital? Is it someone who can cry in front of you? Is it the person who will shave your legs because you can’t reach? Who will rub your feet after a long day with out being asked? Who will pop you zits on your back? Who comes with you to every doctor appointment you have just to be sure you are healthy? You learn a foreign language just to talk to you? Who puts you above their family? Who asks you to forgive them? Who wants to make all the demons go away? Who will shut the closet door at night so the monsters don’t get out? Who tries to steal your teddy bear in the middle of the night because it smells like you? Who wears your clothes when you are out of town because they smell like you? Who wants to watch you get old with them? Who laughs at your corny jokes? Who knows when not to press a subject further? Who doesn’t ask you about your past? Who tries daily to gain your approval? Who tries daily to erase the past?

"So whose to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on
And won't you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet"

And after all this, if this is love, when do you forgive them?

2 Comments:

Nut's mom said...: David Gray. it's on the cd; 8:20 AM
Anonymous said...: This post actually brought tears to my eyes. What's the title of this song. I want to get it online. remind me to tell you about "the most exciting news in two years". See ya!; 10:11 PM

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