Sometimes I think it would be nice
to have a girlfriend or a wife.

Then I think about how what is first supremely sweet
can turn acidly sour.

I think about all the relationships and marriages
drowning in seas of disillusionment.

And I wonder to myself, do I really want to take the chance,
the possibility of a shipwrecked love and a marooned heart.

Without doubt, it can be advantageous when one becomes two,
but the tides are high and the seas can run dry.

Bob Boyd