I Get It Now - May 19, 2024

each day the songbirds of dawn

point their melodies east

to worship the new light

I think we older folks

started to get it after taking

years  decades for granted

to hum a tune each morning

each as precious as

a hundred earlier ones

lived in a blur  too fast

and never thrown into memory

now we know our last one

will probably be cherished the most

for its brevity

and

intense gratitude