And I woke up this morning to a world full of promise. A sky
filled with hope for the sun yet to arrive to kiss the earth that is still
asleep covered with the blanket of slumber held by winters magic.
The light grows upon my eyes and I am always in captivation
of what is to come for I can never be sure of the unfolding.
Should the clouds stay and tantalize me with a promise or
will they wisp away and allow forth the glimmer of warmth that will rain forth
through my windows and sooth the chill still resting on my tired body?
It is never promised, this day that caresses us. Though we
would like to believe the morning comes for we have willed it to, the truth is
it simply arrives whether we wish it or not.
The birds sing, melodious and sweet.
The sleeping branches sway their winter song.
All creatures bound by this existence continue each morning,
each night as it has always been regardless of my current state of ambiguousness.
Each moment in perpetual motion set forth by a hand we can only imagine to be
there.
Yes, onward it comes and I reminded of my minuscule matter
in this tidal wave of life. No more than the drop of water careening down the
side of my cup pulled by a force I can not see, but propels me just the same.
Perhaps this is all imagination, fooling myself that I can
direct the course my feet should travel. Maybe the destination is no more than
words put together to ease my discomfort during times of melancholy. Time no
more real than the imaginations of crazy thought bought by those still in their
dormancy and willingly scuffed off to those too fraught with confusion to do anything
more than follow.
It matters not. The morning will come on a chariot sending
forth hues of pink and powdered blue to set the stage, an asseveration of a
night that will step aside and ring on the golden disc that is our sun.
Morning, it seems, can not be restrained. Some will greet it
dancing, rested on toes bursting with anticipation of a song yet to be heard. Poised
for a choreography not yet written, but filled with curiosity and excitement, while
others will offer no more recognition to it’s statement than that of their
discarded thoughts.
And I?
The birds have awakened from their slumber, nattering on
about things I can only imagine. The sky has opened and the sun smiles on all
that my eyes can feast and beyond. Nothing is certain, and yet, though in the
distance there are clouds willing to obscure the light now billowing onto my
face, I feel content. Content for now to simply witness the nondiscrimination
that the winter capped mountains hold as their faces glow with plumes of pink,
orange and gold to hold there until at last their frozen tops lends way to
white.
Relaxed to know that regardless of their seeming frivolity
flitting about the landscape of prairie and tree, the birds will continue to
sing a song I may never understand, but my heart cherishes it just the same.
Peace. Peace to know that this moment is unlike any moment
preceding it, or that will come again. Knowing that in this moment I have
captured it as a picture, imprinted on the pages of my soul and that each
moment proceeding has the purview to extend to such heights and impermanent
nature as this one.
One Earth.