These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Helene Left Her Calling Card

She slapped some trees and knocked them down.
She tossed so many limbs.
She took our power and made us frown.
The food-prep option's thin.

The town in frenzied activity
is trying to normal make.
The anxiousness our lives now see
is sometimes hard to take.

Don't plan to get your car filled up
without an afternoon
to stop and start, and drink a cup
or maybe sing a tune.

I found some signals for the street,
where actual lights do burn,
but side roads make my oft retreat,
until more lights I learn.

Some day our lives will be restored
for now, and Eternity,
but now the "not-as-good" affords
us thoughts and words to free.

by Jay O’Toole
on September 28th, 2024