Delighted With Me…. Poem by Louise Tredoux

I woke up and Rudi’s still next to me,
I luxuriate in his presence, the feeling’s
divine - he, his knowledge of marine life,
his experiments, his research and everything
belongs to me, today I’ll be his skivvy, I want
to fetch and help and carry, we’re going down
to the aquarium, I’ll see all his colleagues, I’m
wearing overalls, it is such fun – Rudi makes me
feel safe, a feeling I missed as a child, when his
eyes laugh, I can do anything, when he gets angry,
it must be with someone else, I can’t face rejection
from HIM, from anyone else, but never from him, his
sunshine fills my soul – maybe where my mother would
have been if she were alive, but I’ll do anything to keep
Rudi in my life – and him happy, healthy and
delighted with me, as I am
with him…