Waiting

 

Tuesday...Vote Day!  I voted during the early voting in Seminole County and I stood in line for an hour and a half to vote, which was short by many accounts of long lines in other counties, so I counted my blessings and stood quietly as I watched the clouds gather.  It was about to rain, and I could smell the scent of rain in the gentle breezes that blew across Florida.  Today is the completion of the Voting and in the hours to come we shall at last know who is to be our new president of the United States.   It has been such a sense of duty...of devotion to our country as I entered the voting booth.  I, along with the rest of the voters felt an urgency to get out and vote unlike any other time in my lifetime, and I feel such a priviledge to be part of this Time of Change  that will surely come along with our new President.  I do not envy him of his job, as it comes with such a price...complete love and duty to his country.  God be with him.

 

Waiting...I have felt this acutely in the past few years since Michael's passing...waiting each and every day for?  I cannot begin to tell you what I am waiting for...perhaps my life to begin once again.  Perhaps I am waiting for the time I will fall into Michael's arms and feel those strong arms embrace me, hugging me close to his chest.  As I write this, I can sense his presence close to me...perhaps he is bending over my shoulder as he reads my words upon the screen.  Is love an umbilical cord that holds two people together I wonder?  Is this what I feel as I wait....wait.....wait for my days to pass by...until I walk through the shadows ....toward the bright light and Michael who waits for me...holding his hand out to guide me.

Perhaps this is what waiting is...

A breath away

The tug of the umbilical cord that attaches your love of your life to you...

 

Ahhhhhh words...they say it all...this sense of Time standing still

Caught in the twilight between night and day...

Right before the rain

Listening to the stereo

Music of long ago

When we were a couple

you and I...

Such great love we truly felt

For one another...

A romance that never ended

And yet...

We were together

But apart.

Just like now

 

The music on the stereo plays softly

As I wait

Not with sadness

As my days are filled

With love from children,

From Grandchildren,

For Great-Grandchildren

From Friends

From Life itself

 

Against the wind

Waiting