I Am Thankful For

My life that sprang like a spring once and flows now like a stream Divine Providence that glows and gleams within like sunbeam Love that makes creatures, like flowers and flies, to give and take Fondness of friends that heals each physical and psychic ache Sunshine and showers that make seeds grow into plants and trees Birds and beasts, tame and wild, whose presence makes nature at ease Equipoise sown and reaped by the blunt writ of birth and death Breeze of boons of care and compassion that caress each breath Floods, droughts, and quakes that unwrap incomprehensible might Harbingers of peace between nations and kingdoms that fight Events that make me foretaste the depth of death while alive Acts of the facts of new life towards which my life revive