Puppies

By Bett

3-16-2003

Like two affection-starved puppies they cling to each other desperate for love

The love they showed each other would have appeared as nothing to a normal person but for them it was more than they had in a decade

Both were miserable in their lonely empty worlds

Isolation had become de facto

Each on a small asteroid

When they collided they bonded as one

So desperate that they each forgot their differences

But the differences crashed into them sometimes like space trash

But they were so needy

So fragile

So insecure

But they are not used to feeling insecure

They each sing to the other, "I need not to need" and say, "I am self-sufficient, I will always survive"

They have always been the Tower.