Love Poem: For Ginger
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Written by: Patricia Koch

For Ginger

Twenty years is a long time
layered with angst and mayhem
colored with dreams and triumphs
surviving and coping
and when i almost lost you
because i was stubborn and indignant
filled with grief
you were so pungent with the scent of chemotherapy and death
i was brave, but you were braver 
we have lingered in the puddles of our life together
laughing and crying and taking long naps through
the addictions and betrayals
the dimissals and the lack of good judgement
to end up here
i love you 
mostly because you get it
i'm so tightly wound and too damn layed back
because you love me unconditionally
and you let me keep the cats that follow me home