Repeating words

When you start to say a word

Over and over again

The word doesn't sound right

And it changes--

Maybe the only thing

that makes words bearable

Is their constant change.

Do you remember driving a car for the first time?

So many places to go.

You made a new friend in college-

She is from Ohio and she is so funny.

All of the sudden your life happens,

As life always seems to do.

You are a little bit happy,

Which is all any of us can ever be.

You sit thinking, as alone and old as you have ever been,

And you began to say the same word over and over again

And you wake up because your dad says it's time for school

And you wake up the next day too because your dad says it's time for school

You see your mother on your old brown couch

It is 7 in the morning, just like it always is

And you say good morning

And then the next day you say good morning

Your mother looks up from her coffee

And loves you.

You wake up everyday,

And she loves you

You think to yourself that

Repeating words

Are not so unbearable

Until they stop repeating