Checked

I didn’t check off
   any of my boxes
            today.

I didn’t finish
   any of the things
            I had planned.

But my time
   was spent even better
            than I expected.

I checked off
   hours
      with a friend –
          and not just
             a friend,
      but someone I needed
           to be with today,
            someone I’ve been missing,
            someone I’ve known for a while
                                   but not forever,
              who still manages
                     to know me
                         in a way
                            others don’t,
               who sees the grit
                        in the depth
                     and the crud
                even in the shallows,
                       and never judges me
                            for either.

And she was exactly who
                        and what
                              I needed.

 

For Cambria.