MORNING

Dawn cracks, night fades
as light rolls over crimson cloudy peaks
gilding vales and villages.

God watches.

Sturdy Nick, no spring-chicken himself,
cradles his ancient neighbor down the stairs
which she can no longer negotiate.

Good-hearted Trooper Tom sends a dozen variegated roses
to almost-forgotten friends
for no good reason but a good thought reason.

God listens.

Squeals of eager laughter on the big yellow buses,
carrying the hopes of tomorrow,
as Da-Glowed cross-walk volunteers
wave and guard them into the future.

Spiders are re-spinning their webs,
just-born babies are crying their arrival,
and tiny pigeons splash in their baths
on a gentle waterfall.

God approves.

Now, fresh-baking bread and fresh beginnings,
first-day-on-the-job, just-married,
paroled at last,
(with a brown paper bag of all her earthly possessions),
while a dewy new-hire data-entry specialist
sits at his keyboard, hoping to do better than yesterday.

Bustling subways, crowded cross-walks,
an early-morning supplicant
whispers on bended knee in a silent hospital chapel.

God smiles.

He gives all of us one more dewy-dawn-birdsong-chance
to really make the world a better place
than we made it yesterday.

We could do it. All together now!
Push us to it, God, push us to it!

God nods approval.

Amen

(c) 2011 Donn B. Murphy

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