Eyelids rise
Sunlight intrudes
With it, familiar colors
And outlines of space and place
Muffled sounds of traffic ‘out there’
Melancholia for warm coziness ‘in here’
But no sliding back to unknowingness
The senses have been prodded
Knowingness must be considered
In all its manifestations
In all the things required to do today
Housework, family, food, job, school, bills….
‘Another day, another dollar’
Got a J-O-B with good benefits
Living ‘la viva de loca’
In the daily drudgery of it all
Cleaned, clothed, caffeinated
Then through the door and to my car I rush
And find myself in the fresh air of the living Earth!
There in the vibrant outside
Rays of the sun cast golden auras across my face
And registers its intensity
In the reactionary crinkling of my eyes
Against its searing brightness
Its heat sends prongs beneath my skin
My bloodstream begins to percolate
I swivel my eyes from the sun’s dazzle
And gaze hopefully at a billowing cloudbank
Its glowering darkness portending rain showers
Snowy mountaintops beneath them
Whisper a promise of coolness
The wind rustling through the trees
Carry the chirps of their feathered residents
The heady fragrance of my lone rosebush
Subtly insinuates my nostrils
All of it promising love and laughter
And a fullness of the senses!
I am giddy in my God-given aliveness
In sync with the world outside
God’s living Earth outside my door
And truly now…..alive am I
By Jahgirl
09/27/2012