First Marriages - Anita Holzberg

If the world did not wink to us
 if the world did not blink to us
   if time was the barometer
      I would watch it tick
sometimes, I would rather time travel

We spoke about our first marriages
   my only marriage
         and how significant it was
                because we grew up together
          we had kids together
                 we started a life together

Even now,
        when the shoe is on the other foot
             when dancing is as close as walking
                   when life is the unsettled cloud
                        your face launches 
                              I remember who I was
                         in that marriage
                                  who I now have become.