Assessing my moral clarity,
I take a tour through the Odyssey,
which unearths some memories
of my Mom…and how I miss her much.

My brother has gotten engaged…
but it wasn’t yet a year ago that this would’ve been unbelievable.
What an unfortunate surprise it’d be to return and find even Min has started a family all her own. Oddly, having now spent tremendous time away, I can envision of our offspring enjoying a family day.

It’s a little sad, because though I still feel young, things like this make me aware of how time is forever fleeting. It instills a desire to see every opportunity as worth seizing. Laying, listening to the rain, I feel I had a genuine chance at true love the second time around…but Couldn’t I sense it? why Wouldn’t I slow down to appreciate it? and Didn’t I want to accept it?

Now with my Eve (do I even believe I deserve to claim her as such?) have I, being stubborn, made the very same mistake?
I ask my head, my heart, and spirit, “Is it too late?”
“No,” they all say, “just wait.”