Gratitude
I am grateful for a dancer's flow, gravity unhinged
for the bubble laugh of infants
stitching us with joy
for a stoplight on unsustainable war
for song bits that come and go
like lovers kissing
for walls of indifference falling
healing hearts of isolation
I am grateful
for sunlight overflowing
unending stream of hope
for the bloom of tortured genius
and startling revelation
for prickly cat and mouse discussions
that tumble into the unexpected
for reality lost in the now of recreation
I am grateful
for streets not torn by combat
for the gingerbread fragrance of skin
for the quiet prayer from pulpits
that plead for new horizons
for hand picked words that remind me of
our shared seduction
Gratitude to know the spinning strobe of living.
Poem composed July 24, 2020.
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