When a friend writes a poem for you....

For Marie
Hope is the life preserver
when great waves of worry and
disappointme­nt crash onto our shore
when storms pass through,
blade sharp lightening flashes
startle and endanger us yet
though they strike all round
we remain unscathed even when
storms rage, seeming never to end
but as dawn breaks, gray black clouds
move off, revealing the promise
of a brighter day, the sun rises
gilding the sky in the stillness
of early morn, the inner
informs us this too shall pass.

Thank you, my friend!