By Jon
Date: 2003 Oct 13
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The rainbow connection

I remember being eighteen for three years
and not wanting to grow up or admit I was getting closer
to being like my father and his father.
I remember working hard for my MBA degree
and realizing it didn't mean a thing
if everyone else had one too.
I remember Sarah giving me my first kiss
and Katrina being my first time
and Stacey breaking my heart.
I remember meeting you
and thinking you were the most beautiful woman
I had ever seen or will ever know;
I still do, by the way.
I still listen to The Rainbow Connection
the Kermit the Frog version, of course,
at least once a week.
I remember thinking when I was five
that if I kept listening to it (and singing it aloud)
my mother would come back home
and sing it to me again to put me to sleep.
I guess I'm still a dreamer.
I still want things out of life
I'll probably never get.
but now I've found you
and I don't have to sing
about rainbows
alone anymore.