luck in the stars

my wife and the cusps

my therapist finds me unusual

when I reach back in time

and find a cusp where I made the right decision,

and I then worry about my losses

if I’d travelled the other path,

my wife is more wonderful than I can imagine,

when I look back at our paths

that crossed and somehow melded into one,

I feel no inevitability, 

but, instead, a lot of intersections

at which, and through which, 

we made the right decisions to lead to now,

I appreciate our time together,

I fear the future, for ending is inevitable,

I fear the past, too,

for I know how lucky my stars have been.

by Henry H. Walker

December 23, ’17