At Last

At last Today has come with a good feeling I smile and am happy, more than usual This anticipation builds, hard to think of random things It is like a birthday, 5 yeas old, knowing that the days brings presents I await only one. I shop, cook, distract, at least try to But nothing shakes my racing pulse Counting time which seems to slow to a snail’s slow march Yet I am here, waiting, wishing, pushing the seconds Soon I think, soon I look at the window, watch the leaves, it seems thousands fall in the passage of this wait I am sure not but it feels so Then I walk to and fro, no space of relax to find, no calmness My excitement waxes high, dog seems to sense this and is also waiting Then I hear it, a car horn, dog runs, I walk I open the gate, open my arms We hold, kiss, touch, at last The wait over, the final second gone, we laugh, smile, kiss more Together again, close, as one, enjoying the further moment At last, no more need to wait Nov 2021