Dream or waking vision
I don't remember
but the light
streaming from her face
was almost blinding

Stephen it's your
great-grandmother Caroline
assigned to watch over you
my penance for neglecting
your grandfather
when he was a boy

That was forty years ago
later I stumbled on
the girlish diary she'd kept
back in the 1870s

Inside the cover
her signature
Carrie
same name and spelling
that my sweet wife Carroll
goes by among her family

A coincidence yes
but is it only that?

All I know
is that my wife
my Carrie
is for sure
my guardian angel