the triumvirate
the three of us were cooped up in a tent
we hadn't taken a chemistry test to fail yet
and we didn't know what slow grinds were
but i remember laying next to angelica
and falling asleep on michael thinking
what the hell had i gotten myself into
and three years later we have been through
every argument imaginable
and every possible incident known to man
but at the end of the day
or at the middle of the night, rather,
we're willing to pitch a tent and do it all over again
falling asleep soundly to the slumber of the other two
there were days that i thought we'd never
speak again let alone sleep again
in the space vicinity but our friendship
the triumvirate is battle tested
when we fall out we never fall apart
we become some sort of impenetrable force
i've learned not to question God's plan and
why he led me to these two and why
we've stuck through it all the way we do but
i'm me. i'm ashley. for having known the two of you
michael snores but he'd never admit it
and angie tosses more than she tends to believe
but these odds and ends of three years of
chaos
and bliss
are nothing but familiar lullabies
that sooth my soul
when days like today wear me out
i'm blanketed in a quilt of friendship
spread over the three of us
God's got it under control
