Promptly Poetry Challenge 2022-23

I promise you Good [Week 16 entry]

I promise you Good


I asked,"May I follow?"
You said that I should.
I asked, "Is it worth it?"
"I promise you Good."

A boss told me, "See ya;
it's not workin' out."
I'd never been fired,
but I had no doubt.

A temp-like position
appeared the next day,
confirming - as always -
You mean what You say.

The foreman was crusty,
the work wasn't fun,
but future events
revealed this was the one.

My wife and my daughter
both needed my care.
Had I not been fired,
I might have despaired.

The work schedule blessing
sent me to my knees,
permitting my presence
my wife's pain to ease.

She missed our new grandson,
but still cried with joy
at sonogram pics
of that new little boy.

She left us too early,
so never enjoyed
the grandson whose presence
helps fill that great void.

I always will miss her
but it's understood -
if Your paths I follow,
things work for the good.


LC: 36


Prompt / Form Note ▶︎

Prompt: PROMISE [use promise or promises in your poem]
Form Note: Simple quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme.