The Teddy Bear

It lay in the corner
Lonely and forgotten
One eye missing
Its smile long gone
Its beauty lay not
In its physique
But in the years they spent together
The diligent nights it guarded her bed
The many night it sat, listening
As she cursed pigtails and boys
Acne and her mom, curfew and
The girls that were stealing her boy

He sat in the corner
Shy and forgotten
Eyes half-closed
On his lips, just a
Hint of a smile
His beauty lays not
In his physique
But in the years
They will spend together
The way he�ll listen as marriage
Isn�t candlelight and roses
The way he�ll cry with her
As he holds their firstborn
The way he�ll hold her as
She cries when their son
Rides away on the yellow bus
And again as their daughter
Leaves to find herself at college.
In the way he�ll still wink
With a twinkle in his eye
As she eats the golden cake