(From the Sunday Scribblings writing prompt: Life is Good)
it's another day
waking up next to my beloved
who hits the snooze alarm
one more time
breakfast with our teenage girl
who's made coffee
Elvis serenading our meal
I break out in a little be-bop
between the sink and the fridge
a stop at McDonald's
gets me a coffee and a
"have a great day!"
from the Perky Lady
and I smile
i drive
all day
cows munching on corn stalks
hawks keeping watch on fenceposts
black birds
in their synchronized flying
joyfully welcoming the morning
in a symphony of praise
tractors in the fields
cleaning up what the cows missed
dust stirred up in mystical clouds
against the sheltering blue dome
i'm free
i know this as i drove through
rolling hills
harvested fields
and eternal horizons
i feel the wind against
my cheek
as the hawk swoops up
then down
riding the air
water towers
miles away
straight ahead
announcing the next spot
of civilization
where farmers gather
for coffee
and community
sacred time
that grounds them
dispels the loneliness of
their work
i am free
i am alive
i have no wishes
that haven't come true
i can't mark a day
a moment
when it all gracefully fell in place
but i know now
that what i was looking for
graciously found me
life is good.
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