Comfort is a knock on the head
and not a cuddle. It’s someone caring
enough to punch you on the shoulder
and remind you that you’re
talking shit and people are
starting to laugh at you.
Comfort is tears on a pillow just
before you realize that you
messed up big time but caught it. Just as
your life/career/relationship was about
to careen over the edge into a flaming ball
of recriminations that you couldn’t undo.
Comfort is decidedly not a large bank
account, a diversified portfolio or
two kids and a Porsche in the garage.
It’s not summers in the Hamptons,
winters at St. Moritz or a tryst with
your boss’s wife and a temp from HR.
Though I suppose that comes close.
Comfort is a series of brief moments
when happiness peers around the corner
smiling and lets you know you’re getting warmer.
It’s pain that lasts one-fourth the time that joy does,
when you’re reading a book to a child, running
in place with a heart that’s strong or so
close to your lover that you can’t tell
yourselves apart.
It’s the proverbial calm before the storm
that doesn’t arrive; the ache that subsides
quickly on its own, a dream that for once comes
true and you get to watch it before falling asleep.
It’s your heartbeat right after a bone-jarring
accident that doesn’t stop and you realize
that everything is going to be alright.
About the Creator
Joe Luca
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Joe, I love these lines: before you realize that you messed up big time but caught it. Just as your life/career/relationship was about to careen over the edge into a flaming ball of recriminations that you couldn’t undo. And these: a heart that’s strong or so close to your lover that you can’t tell yourselves apart. And the concluding. BRAVOS!