Celebrating the Light

CELEBRATING THE LIGHT Ten minutes and still it won’t change Late for her birthday party again, Just like last year She celebrates forty two years young tomorrow The 24th of December Here I have driven halfway across the state And am again stopped by the same red light in town Made good time between Albany and Erie Then down to a crawl at the tracks And dead stop at this light My God, the sun’ll be up soon if we don’t get moving Grey dawn sky parts to reveal even more clouds higher up in the sky She’ll think I’ve forgotten Ok - at last the red flashes to green and hey, up comes the sun too! I remember she’d always say her birthday marked the end of the darkest day She always joked she was born with the return of the light Now slip into cruise control and we’ll be there in fifteen minutes She’ll think her old man’s losing it for sure But still . . . . . I can’t wait to see my youngest daughter again She was always the light of my life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entered in Debbie Guzzi's Contest Celebrate the Light