1,2,3,4,5,
(I got out alive!)
One.
The odd number
The first number
Numero Uno
Looking out for number one.
Three Dog Night had it right.
One is the loneliest number.
Now, two.
There's a number!
Couple
Unit
Duet
Duo
Best friends
Old marrieds
You can't tango alone.
Three's a crowd
Sometimes it's a party.
A family
A trio
A few
Three wishes.
Three on a match
The Three Musketeers
Three friends is fun
the odd one out.
Four.
The Four Horsemen
The Four Seasons
(nature's and music's)
How did Frankie Valli sing that high?
Four suits in a deck
Four wheels
Four gospel writers
Four chambers of the heart,
each vulnerable, each open to pain.
And to love.
And five
Five fingers
Five toes
Five golden riiinnngggsss.
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.
Five can also be a lonely number -
a fifth wheel.
We start out alone,
If lucky and blessed, we meet the one for us.
2 can become three to make a family;
three can be three friends, happy, content.
Four people out to dinner or on
a double date, a bridge game.
Five cents is a nickel.
Don't take any wooden ones, now.
© Ellie Maziekien
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