How did I get by back then
Not knowing myself as I do now?
The simple things that I require?
Yet there were long stretches
When I didn't have those things,
Like good drinking water, or food I wasn't allergic to.
And what did I do for that whole year
When I only had a shower in a stall,
When so often now all I need in life
To push restart is a good hot bath.

And in another year or ten,
I'll look back at 'now' as 'then'
And what will I see as missing?
For I'm sure by that 'then' I'll think
That I'm really living.

-jenn