Edward S Gault

SCALES

I saw our marriage as a union.

According to the priest, we were as one.

One body.

Somehow, over the years,

We became a business partnership,

A set of scales.

Everything was weighed.

For some reason, 

Anything loving,

Anything kind

Fell lightly into one dish.

Anything harsh

Anything critical

Fell into the other dish 

as a stone.

That dish weighed us down.

As time went on, even the thing I said 

To give you perspective,

To help you understand how I saw things,

To raise you up,

To give you hope,

Got tossed into the dish of stones.

Finally, the chain holding the stones broke.

All those stones rolled down the hill.

Our love rolled with them.