Six Notebooks

In the Car, a Moment Transcendent 
                                    For G 
 
May I say  
Thank you 
For yesterday 
For you, for yesterday 
For you yesterday 
For when I suggested something and 
You reacted, strongly very strongly 
Not at all how I expected 
Nor how I desired you to react 
 
And when I said 
I don’t think this is about me 
When I said let’s take a moment 
 
You did 
 
Then you told me 
That it wasn’t what I said 
Or anyone else 
 
You told me your frustrations 
You told me your unhappiness 
You told me your anger 
 
May I say thank you 
For trusting me 
In exactly this way 
 
I can’t change the world 
Or where we are right now 
But I can listen 
And do what I can 
Within the limits placed 
By the way things are now 
 
So thank you 
More than I can say 
 
It was not something 
I could do at your age 
It was something I had to learn 
In very hard ways 
 
To take a moment 
And examine why I felt 
All those things I felt 
 
Even longer to learn that 
I could say them out loud 
And be heard 
 
I heard you 
I hear you 
 
Thank you 
For that moment of beauty 
That I carry now 
Forward into this day 
 
01/26/2021 PWS