He rocks back and forth in his old
wooden rocking chair,
thinking about his years navigating
the high seas
when he was a captain of a cruise
ship and saw many countries
and met thousands of people, one
of them his deceased wife who died
at age seventy-seven of the Covid
virus that almost killed him too.
He misses his wife everyday and
wishes the virus killed him too.
Now he just rocks back and forth
in his old wooden rocking chair
and prays to God to take him to
heaven to be with his wife.
Bob Boyd