Out of the box

Would you know I had grown if you hadn't seen me as a baby?
How do you measure change?
We compare.
How do you measure love?
We contrast.
How do you measure a relationship?

It isn't fair.
It isn't fast.
We spend years developing these falsified, glorified relationships and judgements
Only to discover that we were looking at a baby picture.
The person we "know" is so much more than what we can see.
And so we have missed a life.
We have missed the bumps and the bruises
                                                         Attempts and the successes
                                                                                     Heartache and hardship.

We have missed what made this person.
We have boxed them up and set them aside.

December 2011