Dear Siri

Because there was no how-to manual

and GPS does not chart

every trail in the wilderness of relationships,

Because my mother was a perfectionist,

I don’t know when good

Is good enough,

And because I’m a soul

having a bodily experience

for my first and only time,

I wake up in the middle of the night

feeling lost and worried

I’m not doing this thing called marriage right.

4-26-22