Your husband sure is lucky to have you as a wife

The Comcast guy turned to say to me as he was walking out the door last night

It was already dark outside and his skin was dark

The temperature is rising in this odd too warm fall weather

And the world feels like the lights are dim

On him and me and maybe you too?

Your husband sure is lucky to have you as a wife

I was friendly and he might have smelled the left-over tacos I was making for the kids

He probably thought I was waiting for my husband to come home

So we could sit around the table and talk about our day

"How has it been?" he would ask

The kids would be fidgety as they always were

Family dinners were not our strength

But today I want them back

I think I could do it better this time

Your husband sure is lucky to have you as a wife

To him they were just words he spoke as he left with his head down

Words that he scattered on my walkway on the way to his car

Words that blew onto my front porch into my home and all around me

Your husband sure is lucky to have you as a wife

I can't stop thinking of these words and the words we all leave

Words that we scream from our mouth in anger

Or fall from our mouth in love

Or words that stumble out because we don’t know how to say it

Or march forward because they deserve to

Or hide in our mouth shy and silent

Or twist because we want our way

Or toss aside because it's too much effort

Or disappear because we forgot to say what we meant

Or slip away because time moves fast

Or linger because they hit the wrong spot

Or wrap themselves around our heart because they hit the right spot

Your husband sure is lucky to have you as a wife