Us Two by A.A. Milne

Things are nicer with two.

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/Us-Two#sthash.mPMbx1KU.dpuf

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.

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C.S. Lewis once wrote in a letter, "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." It seems that all of us get to a point in our lives when we think that we're too old for fairy tales or other children's literature. We want hardness and cynicism. We want independence, self-sufficiency, and being "grown-up," whatever any of that really means. But the best children's literature has a way of drilling down to truth, not with innocence--because who, after all, is innocent, even at birth?--but with vulnerable honesty, showing us that life is best with others whom we love and who love us.

Little in adult literature is so honest as Milne's poem. Simply, he articulates the desire, the need, we all have for people who will share, really share, in our lives, not just our houses or our beds. We need people who are moving in the same direction as we are, who can face their fears and relish their triumphs along with us, and with whom we can share mutual love and respect even when we may be mad at each other, even when we struggle with the dragons.

Having been made in the image of the triune God--one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--I believe that we are meant to be we's and us'es. We are made for community. We are made to be together.

And when there is just one someone who is at least willing always to say, "Let's go together," we are blessed beyond measure.

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/Us-Two#sthash.mPMbx1KU.dpuf

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/Us-Two#sthash.mPMbx1KU.dpuf

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/Us-Two#sthash.mPMbx1KU.dpuf