Does anyone know the title or author of this poem? I've read it before I think as it sounds so familiar but it's bugging me and I can't seem to pull it off of Google. Some help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks x
maybe ive imagined it but it just sounds so damn familiar that its stuck in my head - if its not that itself then there is def something that sounds similar to it...
"We won’t be together for so long that we forget how we got together in the first place and it doesn’t matter to us or to anybody else. We won’t go to bed in the afternoon on the strength of a smile across a room. We won’t exchange our life stories and feel pangs of jealousy when we talk about old lovers. We won’t get enough memories of our own to see us through the bad times. We won’t read something in the paper and want to ring each other up just to talk about it. We won’t ever go dancing and embarrass everybody but ourselves. We won’t ever argue, we won’t ever make up. We won’t ever get to know each other so well that we take each other for granted. And we won’t ever share a fish supper."
That's EXACTLY what he says if that helps anybody.
I'm sure I read that poem or at least some form of it in the YOU! magazine that comes with the Mail on Sunday (England obv!!) when that woman used to have a column where she would choose her favourite or a poignant poem for the week....
It is and that's why it's used but something keeps bugging me - that I've heard it before and that it's an actual poem. It's mainly that bit about "go to bed of an afternoon on the strength of a smile across the room" that seems most familiar..grr it's just really bugging me!! :(