Gorgeous

We had a wonderful sleet and snow storm here in north Georgia for the past two days. At our house, we didn't even lose the power. But while waiting yesterday morning to see what would happen, I wrote this:

Power & Light

Waiting for the power to go,

the revolution has begun.

We huddle inside the house where

we have lived for twenty-two years

of our lives, where children and grandchildren

came, fireplace bright, waiting, waiting.

We have a long time

to get used to the coming cold.

We can see the world through

an eighteenth-century lens,

huddled for light and warmth

around the flames, and I want

to say to you that if this is

the revolution, I will be on

the barricades, waving our

family flag, saying, it is time,

it is long past time

for us to sing our Marseillaise

and be proud of what

we have done here,

even when the power blinks

and turns into the sweetest light

we have shone in this life.