Cartoon by his ex-housemate
Author: Davena Fynmore
Us
Poetry, RossThere was a couple at the restaurant we ate lunch at once, they looked only a few years shy of 90. She was bent over and fragile, his dark hair had long since turned white, their faces wore the creases thousands of smiles and tears and days filled with laughter and dreams, and maybe nights filled with the heartache of being apart, but in their eyes, the love shined.
He leaned close to me and whispered “I want us to be like them in 50 years time.”
I believed him.
I believe in that old couple.
Talking with TK
Family, TKTK and I planted some tulip bulbs this morning, so now he keeps peering into the container to check to see if they’ve grown yet.
His grandparents were arguing, and he rushed in and said “Stop fighting you two!”
When he was asked why he responded with “because the only thing worse than a grumpy granddad is a grumpy grandma!”.
“shhhhh Mumma you can’t wake my babies!”
“what babies?”
“my new babies, Charlie and Tim.”
“where did you get Charlie and Tim from?”
“the big baby shop. But you can’t see them now they are sleeping in their cot.”