This Good Life

 



This Good Life


Orioles singing

Coo of turtledoves

Sweet Guava on my tongue

Sugar Apple (Atis) too

Mulberries in fruition

Morning coffee

Gently waking me

Dew on grass

Cradling my feet

Sunlight through trees


Words of affirmation:

How are you?

How is life treating you?

I hope things get better for you.

Shared stories of enduring

Of past hope 

Now manifesting


It’s true what they say

We don’t have to solve 

Our entire lives

And things never really

Get solved

They come together and

Unravel, weave and unhinge

This is just how it is

And these seemingly, miniscule

Things are what

Carries us through

Like remembering 

To come up for air

In the midst of mindless submersing

in the chaos of the world

Breathing like we’ve never

Breathed before

And finally knowing in our bones

how life is good, and saying,

Ah, life is really good. 


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