Outtage

My grandson and I are
trying to be patient with Florida
Power & Light tonight.
Very thankful for the back-up
battery that is evidenced by
a healthy Wi-Fi connection.

With the power out, a flashlight and an
antique oil lamp lend a luminescent hand
to the otherwordly glow of Adam's phone.
Generations blend in silence as we wait
to hear the AC humming once again.
Life lessons of the value of such things
as patience, gratitude, a simpler way of
doing things are better learned, perhaps,
without a YouTube video to entertain,
computer charged so I can get a little work
done in the meantime. Without anything,
we'd just be sitting in the lamplight
talking, waiting, things that are too tender
for the brightness of the light we've grown
accustomed to, then spoken, flowing
out into the darkness from my heart to his,
and his to mine.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014