How Lucky I Am

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Allison Grayhurst

How Lucky I Am

So now she is three

and like a lake that has always been there,

soothing me, feeding me with wonder,

she grows, continuing.

In ten years it will be a different

language we share, but always

the same connecting laughter and the feeling

of being buried in velvety flour

by her gentle ways that move my ravaged heart

into peace.

In twenty, we will drink coffee, sharing

the same window. She will teach me, and I will be

her secret underground where she can nestle from

the revolving world.

In thirty, I will be old and she will be settled

into the source of her strength and individuality.

We will love each other the same as today,

when love is like the very air that rocks

so sweetly between us.

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First published in “Anchor & Plume: Kindred, Issue 5, Nest”

http://anchorandplumepress.com/2013/12/20/issue-5-contributors/

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