Wife

8.23.18 & 8.31.25 & 9.1.25

Like lightning in a cloudless sky
it was clear she was here
before she arrived

Struck backwards in time –
the full clouds weren’t there yet,
these full clouds that carry life in them
like she does

Look at them
I can name them now

They are here
sending light back
to a bachelor
in a dark apartment

They are here,
shade setting security
against the sun scorching truth
of life,
providing cool respite and
purpose

I was never worthless
but I felt worth less then
than I do now
while these grey/white
and sometimes radiant red/orange
stages stretched across the sky
remind me of what I can be

What kindness and
what encouragement these
clouds hold and then
loose

onto a ground that wants
to produce