Good fortune
The particulars of this day
with yesterday’s wind and rain
now behind us and today a blue sky
with a smattering of thin cloud
and for some reason I’m thinking
of the approach of spring
followed by summer days
and wondering where I will be
what shores I will be gazing upon
or what number of swallows
will fill the air and whether
good fortune
will finally
come my way
It has taken me a lifetime
to understand myself and I admit
there’s still plenty of work
to be done on that score
not that I consider myself
to be a suckered soul
the victim of adverse stars
and imprinted tea leaves :
as long as there is light
there is hope and as long
as in the night the lamp
burns bright at your window
John Lyons