IT WILL PASS

“It will pass,”

my grandfather said to me on his dying bed.

He meant the moment.

He meant my concerns.

He meant his life.

And in that glimmering instant 

of Truth

I felt the universe sigh-

And ready again,

to take another breath.

To be published in “Serenity Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose to Soothe Your Soul,” Spring 2009.