For this Life (Gratitude)

 

Bound by the earth and stars

Which is to say, alighted by the

Offering of full freedom

 

I walk along the shore

Guided by the soft and roaring

Motion of the ocean’s waves

 

I turn inward to find

What’s true, I blossom out

In turn, under moon’s wisdom

 

I wade through fields, awed

By the creatures I find there,

All this life generating life

 

I fall to the ground, wondrous,

Free, amazed by my presence

In all of this, my part to play,

 

As gratitude, not for the first time,

Fills me, and I vow: I will soak it in,

Lap it up, make use of precious time.

 

– TS