Respect! You show courage

And sometimes I forget

Your support is like the floor beneath me

I don’t look where I tread

 

Our swirling, whirling life

We never seem to stop

but pause, fleetingly, in slipstreams, shouting:

“We’ve really done a lot”

 

The way you face things, the man you are

And it’s not easy, marriage

I don’t say this often enough:

Respect! You show courage

 

I’m doing National/Global Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo / GloPoWriMo) – write one poem, per day throughout April. Today’s prompt/challenge for 13th April was this: the number 13 is often considered unlucky, so today I’d like to challenge you to beat the bad luck away with a poem inspired by fortune cookies.