When we're young

We dream of Prince Charming

Or the glass tower princess

Of two lives meshing

Like two waves merging

With no opposition

Sliding together

Perfectly constructive

Instead we find all the ways

To rip each other apart

Perfectly destructive

With just the right amplitude

And just the wrong phase

Everything we thought we wanted

Coming together

Until one day we wake to find

There's no wave left at all