April 12

National Poetry Month’s Poem-A-Day 30-Day Challenge: Day 12


TRUNK

(Holy Saturday)


I am finally on the road,

an all-night drive ahead,

five hundred miles to go.

The presents are wrapped with red

bows and buried back in the trunk

(with a bunch of other junk, I know).

There is a party in the morning

to celebrate my daughter’s baby girl, Grace.

And though these hours will be long and dark,

I wouldn’t miss the surprise on her face

for anything in the world.