The Better Half

I can only seem to accomplish things half way

Half way through marriages

half way through life

half way through lovers

half way through books

halfway to heaven and probably 

only half way to hell.

I only half sleep and only half dream

and only half listen .

When people talk , I only hear half the conversation,

When stalking others I'll stumble upon, or only half search

I'll collect your poems religiously, but I'll fail to hang them on a mirror

with half dead squirrels or red lipstick, 

I certainly will never go to the trouble of gouging the I's out.

I will never leave items on the porch and I can guarantee, 

I would only make it halfway to your house before turning back.

I will only half apologize and I will only half mean it.

I will say a half good bye but never really go,

I will only half way stay.

I will only half remember you,

but only as the better half.

Reviews

[Chris]

You'ld make a hell of a Good Better-Half... sigh

[Corset]

I'm sure glad you'd think so Chris, I imagine I'm more than half a pain in the arse.

[Chris]

Takes two to make a complete ...pain.

[Corset]

lol, yes it does lol, so funny

[Caroline B A Maguire]

That's so honest and humorous (I hope that was your intent?) Yet the last line is so simply sweet..lovely..

[Corset]

yes, it was meant to be humorous :P but there is a funny truth to it

[Caroline B A Maguire]

lol. am glad i got it then :)

[barleygirl]

I love this as a personal anthem. In my younger life, I often thought these thoughts about myself -- my inability to stick to stuff. I never got married & never had kids becuz I knew I'd do a half-assed job at either one. You have taken many of my early self-observations & expanded this list to a delightful & hilarious & yet dead-serious degree. This is brilliant thinking, all well-expressed to be like a one-two punch of startling recognition. Your use of "better half" is brilliant. I love the way your poem starts out with a controlled cadence & symmetry, then thru the middle it gets more frantic & passionate & messy, but toward the end it pulls itself back together for a snappy ending. Like the trajectory of a mini-breakdown (that people have all the time) & then pulling oneself back before anyone notices the lapse. I'm greatly envious of this thinking & also the writing (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Corset]

Thank you Margie!

[Andrew Nelson Stewart]

The beauty of going halfway and loved how you put the theme " halfway" in every circumstance thought possible. Like love, marriage, life's segments of your journey. Loved the line " Half way through marriages
half way through life
half way through lovers
half way through books
halfway to heaven and probably
only half way to hell." Traveling both dimensions simultaneously and feeling justified or maybe that's all the speaker can take for now. Only the half versions is more convenient than the fullest ways of consumption. Keep writing loved the idea played out here. A gentle yet stubborn philosophy. sincerely your friend in writing and life :)

[Corset]

Thank you ANS I will be by soon :D