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Lists
Women keep lists in their heads;
The night you met; the day you wed.
And every chore and thing-to-do
Are listed in her memory too.

Each and every room reminds her
Of a task that waits behind her.
Fold the socks; ink the printer;
Pull out spring and pack the winter.

Paint the kitchen; patch a hole;
Nourish dreams; mend a soul.
Make a wish upon a star;
Fix the hinge that hangs ajar.
Kiss it better; hide the scar.

Thoughts unwritten; thoughts unsaid;
Women keep lists in their heads
And tuck the children into bed.

Nowhere can she hide from knowing!
(Even with the shower going,
She can hear the weeds re-growing).

Checks her list and while she dreams;
She’ll weigh her worth against its scheme;
The lists get longer, so it seems.

Asleep she notes the faintest squeaking;
Or the bathroom faucet leaking;
(May not hear a gun go off;
Yet wakens to a baby’s cough.)
There are lists she can’t turn off.

Though you’re sure she isn’t noting;
Ten years later she’ll be quoting;
(When you thought it safe for voting)!

A list for hopes she can’t resist;
(Perhaps they never will exist).
And don’t forget, a list of lists!
Do her wrong; she can’t forget;
Sadly, to her great regret.
Lists can make her cry, and yet;

She keeps a list for each of you;
For that’s what love makes women do.
What you want, what you fear;
All your days are journaled here.

Scraps of lifetimes, yours and mine;
Gathered up in pantomime;
Carried in her book of time.

When she’s gone you’ll leave no track;
Cast no shadow; come not back.
For that, which was, exists no more;
But you go on, just as before;
Because your name with pride she bore.

And when his boys had grown to men;
They came one day to ask again:

“What was it that you hoped for me?”
An old man answered longingly;

That you’d be brave, to stand alone;
Until your heart had found its home;

And if your life she softly wished;
And breathed upon her woman’s list;
No greater gift was there than this.

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<br />
Women keep lists in their heads;<br />
The night you met; the day you wed.<br />
And every chore and thing-to-do<br />
Are listed in her memory too.<br />
<br />
Each and every room reminds her<br />
Of a task that waits behind her.<br />
Fold the socks; ink the printer;<br />
Pull out spring and pack the winter.<br />
<br />
Paint the kitchen; patch a hole;<br />
Nourish dreams; mend a soul.<br />
Make a wish upon a star;<br />
Fix the hinge that hangs ajar.<br />
Kiss it better; hide the scar.<br />
<br />
Thoughts unwritten; thoughts unsaid;<br />
Women keep lists in their heads<br />
And tuck the children into bed.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nowhere can she hide from knowing!<br />
(Even with the shower going,<br />
She can hear the weeds re-growing).<br />
<br />
Checks her list and while she dreams;<br />
She’ll weigh her worth against its scheme;<br />
The lists get longer, so it seems.<br />
<br />
Asleep she notes the faintest squeaking;<br />
Or the bathroom faucet leaking;<br />
(May not hear a gun go off;<br />
Yet wakens to a baby’s cough.)<br />
There are lists she can’t turn off.<br />
<br />
Though you’re sure she isn’t noting;<br />
Ten years later she’ll be quoting;<br />
(When you thought it safe for voting)!<br />
<br />
A list for hopes she can’t resist;<br />
(Perhaps they never will exist).<br />
And don’t forget, a list of lists!<br />
Do her wrong; she can’t forget;<br />
Sadly, to her great regret.<br />
Lists can make her cry, and yet;<br />
<br />
She keeps a list for each of you;<br />
For that’s what love makes women do.<br />
What you want, what you fear;<br />
All your days are journaled here.<br />
<br />
Scraps of lifetimes, yours and mine;<br />
Gathered up in pantomime;<br />
Carried in her book of time.<br />
<br />
When she’s gone you’ll leave no track;<br />
Cast no shadow; come not back.<br />
For that, which was, exists no more;<br />
But you go on, just as before;<br />
Because your name with pride she bore.<br />
<br />
And when his boys had grown to men;<br />
They came one day to ask again:<br />
<br />
“What was it that you hoped for me?”<br />
An old man answered longingly;<br />
<br />
That you’d be brave, to stand alone;<br />
Until your heart had found its home;<br />
<br />
And if your life she softly wished; <br />
And breathed upon her woman’s list;<br />
No greater gift was there than this.<br />

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