I need a freshly minted song
to lift me every day,
to transform the experience
of slowly fading away.
Now with time to appreciate
the changing season’s face,
I want to find a melody,
and words I can embrace.
A song to really celebrate
all the people in my life,
friends, and family as well,
the children and my wife.
With a tune from listening
to birds in woods and fields,
picking up life’s melody
which daily routine yields.
The divine is all around us,
unseen presence at our side,
revealed in loving actions
by neighbours far and wide.
I don’t need flowery words
to capture what life gives,
each day brings me miracles
in tune with all that lives.
May 2021