To Dan, with a heart full of gratitude
We never really know what waits
like sunlight in the gloom we never
really understand the promise as we
walk into a room and hear a voice and see
a face and feel
something we’ve never felt
before a kind of grace acceptance more
an understanding fusion the kind
of feeling that you get
when life’s demanding more of you
than you believe you have
to give and suddenly
a hand extends
strong competent and sure
finding yours and tells you with the power
of its grip that all those days and nights
when you were lost misunderstood and felt
alone are just a memory
this hand this man
this moment leads you home
– Susan A. Katz (All rights reserved)