Today

The birds are chirping, My heart leaps up for joy For the music I hear is calming Exciting every cell in my body I look across the long lonely room It’s still dark but I see some little Light illuminating away the deadly doom Prompting a fresh feeling so gentle I lack words to describe exactly how I feel But don’t worry if I don’t really say it For you’ll see and know it’s so real What I feel deep down from the heart What a lovely new beginning! Today is a new day of restoration For what I have been bargaining From life in a quest for total liberation Long are gone those weary days When I lacked vision and direction And my bones became brittle in decay What a wretched being I was in that dudgeon! Now my eyes clearly can see, Far beyond the imaginary horizon Further than the farthest stretch of the sea Far beyond the stars and the moon and the sun blazons.