I met you
just before 9/11
called you at work
as those buildings shook
We walked
on a Gulf, stained
and spilled upon
watching blue waves, holding frightened hands
Then recession times
loomed big and bad
but no loss of cash
could make us lose us
Hurricanes
have come and gone
they’ve wrecked our car
but always missed our home
And now they say,
distance is the way
but you’re my only way
you’re the only way.
‘Cause when I hide
I hide with you
Disaster’s come and go
but I still have you.
The world may change
normalcy fade away
but we will never change
we’ll always be us
……….
Jaime Formato is a reader, writer, and teacher. She lives in a little house by the woods with her amazing husband and four beautiful children.