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How I Was Made

from My Father Loved Me by Rachael Kilgour

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On a piece of drafting paper
18x24
Just before the metric system
Moved its way across the North

A young man wrote a letter
Wrote the longest letter ever
To his girl back in the States
And that’s how I was made

She was bright and level-headed
Quick to rail against the rules
He was kind and playful
Determined and true

And so they built a life together
Six months and then forever
In a church back in the States
And that’s how I was made

This is love
This ‘when can I see you?’
This ‘you’re on my mind’
The rushing in blind
This is love

Let the clock run a decade or two
And what do you have left
But a sense of obligation
And the memory of romance
And the children outside playing
The mortgage that needs paying

Was it all a mistake?
And that’s how I was made

This is love
This sticking it out
This yearn to escape
But choosing to stay
This is love

She’ll ask if he ate
And she’ll make him a plate
And he’ll remember Valentine roses

Time takes two lovers
And turns them to family
Familiar, but no less devoted

To bend and never break
Yes that’s how I was made

This is love
This seeing it through
The asking for help
And the bedside farewell
This is love

This is love
This house is too quiet
And all the reminders
of two lives intertwined
This is love

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from My Father Loved Me, released September 22, 2023

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