Does it Matter?

I finally have a moment.  My goal had been to write this all out on Friday.  I had a different post in mind but through a series of events, the weekend is almost over before I had a chance to sit down.  The word prompt we are playing with is matter.  Matter is stuff in some ways and in others is feeling/thought.   Does it matter? leans more to the latter than the former.

 It’s been a hard weekend of physical work and some mental work as well.  We’ve been working on bodywork on my car, I’ve been trying to move a garden around… and it’s mental game of moving things around and seeing how it all fits.  It’s not all fitting as I had planned so it gives me opportunity to talk with my 19 year old and say .. What do you think?  And he’s given me some fantastic ideas!   I love that I can just talk with him and have helpful conversations with him.  🙂  

but anyways, onwards to working out the poetry for this week’s prompt!

Does it Matter?

Tentative plans made
a friend to visit on a
cloudy Sunday afternoon.

but then life intervened
with the serious threat of rain
and a car needing some body work.
and a hubby who
expected quietly, my help.

So I sanded,
I asked tons of questions,
because body-work specialist
is the farthest thing from my purview.

then I watched hubby
apply stinky stuff that
stops the rust from growing.

I learned to apply
whatever that stuff is you put
over the sanded metal.

Then I learned you need to sand
that stuff smooth before you
can apply a primer coat with
smooth strokes going in
one direction only. Calm,
light strokes, done smoothly.

forget I almost did!
All the masking I did.
We don’t need paint overspray
on windows and door-jams!

and so, does it matter
that I skipped a date
with a friend, tentative
though those plans were?

I think so.
I had a tired man smile
at me tonight and tell me
for being newbies at this,
we did a bit of a hack job
but it will do! 🙂

and you know what
it does matter!
It matters that family smiles
and my friend
another day we’ll do tea.
We’ll laugh and share stories
and that too will matter.