Appreciating the Lights

 Rainy night...
Slowly deflating tire...
Just what I need
Right at this moment...
It hasn't been
The easiest week...
I'm still healing
Post-divorce...
I've been trying
To bleed off the venom...
Trying to get the bile 
Out of my system...
And there is some ugly stuff...
It sprays out in words
Typed into a phone
As verse...
Stream of consciousness expression...
The air slowly leaking
Out of my tire,
Upon inspection,
Was caused by 
A large metallic object
Protruding from it...
To be removed
At a later date...
It's too late in the night
As it is...
You never expect
To have to work so hard
Just to keep it together...
But that's life...
We've all got our
Binder of traumas...
Everybody seems to be going through
A bad patch lately...
That cold rain
Is coming down hard...
As I was ready to loosen the lug nuts, 
Which seem to have been tightened down
With a pneumatic wrench or a gorilla,
Good Samaritans...
It took two of us to just break the lock
On the lugs...
Another friend held the flashlight...
Another, 
Who could have easily
Stayed in a warm, dry vehicle,
Stood in the rain
In moral support and solidarity...
A little light...
A little light is always appreciated
In darker times...
Especially
With random obstacles
That the wheel of fortune
(Not the game show)
Throws in our paths...
It's sometimes hard to say
That everything
Is going to be alright...
But I take deep breaths
And tell myself
That everything
Is going to be alright...
I try to feel it,
The wordless parts...
Experience it...
Express it
In an almost medical connotation
Of that word...
Bleeding off the pressure...
Still appreciating the lights...