I heard the faintest whisper

I was taking out the trash.

Walking from the kitchen to our wild outdoors where a tropical cyclone is brewing.

Somewhere in the wind I heard the faintest whisper…

You are good

You are brave

Your kind beyond measure

And yet do not forget, you carry inside of you, the power of a hurricane.

Wild, uncontrollable, a true force of nature that cannot be named, dire…