God's grace to me tonight was that after two hours in a book store on a Friday night, I came out to a car wet with moisture not because it had rained but sheerly because I live so close to the ocean.

That and the fact that peanut butter and jelly sounded divine for dinner tonight.

Melancholy

Night of returning
Staying up later than expected,
longer than most days of recent
Future still uncertain, but my past
It is so many moments
I never venture to
Yet so many smiles, so many ways
They have made me laugh out loud
No I cannot find you in tomorrow
But I am lost in the laughter
And comforted in silence
What grace I have found
In knowing purpose
In knowing value
In knowing life
In loving and being loved
How could I have ever known you would mean so much?
My eyes....my eyes are bright blue
They have been washed again and again
What do you see in them?
O sing, I beg you sing,
Sing my song back to me
It will return