Name: Prefaced with "maybe"
Duration: P00H07M03S
Description: I was trying to come to terms with my parents splitting up. That was Doug on acoustic and Sam See riffing, brilliantly, on piano.

Prefaced with "maybe"

from maranatha by Megan Sue Hicks

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I was trying to come to terms with my parents splitting up. That was Doug on acoustic and Sam See riffing, brilliantly, on piano.

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You couldn't have been this far apart
The night you made a baby.
Your quiet detachment -- when did it start?
"I love you," prefaced with "maybe"?
Maybe. Maybe I love you. Maybe.

Our roles are reversed,
And I'm not well-rehearsed
In phrases invented for keeping small children
From tearing each other to shreds.
Your eyes droop a cursed look.
What could be worse
Than to wake up and find
That the one you had loved
Is a stranger beside you in bed.

Maybe. Maybe I love you. Maybe.

Who's going to win your undeclared war?
Neither of you can hope to.
You wars are inside you, not in between.
Your own heads are foes to subdue.
Impatience and pride
Engulf like a riptide
Of bitterness pulling you further apwary
From the common shore where you love.
You've got to decide
Whether you're going to hide
In your books and your business
Or whether you'll mend
Tapestry two loves once wove.

The giving involved in being one
Can never see an end.
Does it have to be that in living with someone
You can no longer be friends?

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe I love you.
Maybe I love you.
Maybe I love you.
Maybe.

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from maranatha, released May 29, 2020

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Megan Sue Hicks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In my teens and twenties I wanted to be a rich and famous singer-songwriter. In my 30s I wanted to be a rich and famous bestselling novelist. In my late 30's I discovered that what I really am is a storyteller, and that's how I've been making my way in the world for the past many years. You can find more about that at megahicks.com ... more

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