Sunday, June 9, 2024

NO NEED TO COUNT

 

I’m sitting at our cabin in the mountains watching the sunrise…listening to the birds

wondering if a poem will decide to join me…waiting for the words.


When I think to myself how I love watching the sun coat the mountains

love the green and yellow hues

love sitting amidst the trees, love a cloudless sky painted blue.


And I started thinking about all the things I love about this planet Earth..

and wondering how many times I’ve said I love this or that about it

since the moment of my birth


How I also love music, art, chocolate, listening to the whistle of a train,

How I love the ocean, lakes and rivers…dancing in the rain…


And what about all the people in my life…my family and my friends?

The number of times I’ve heard or said I love you…never seems to end.


When counting the moments of love shared together in all our days and years?

Shouldn’t I also count all the touches, the whispers, the hugs…

all the smiles…all the tears?


Since I could never count the number of times I’ve said I love you…

or someone has said those words to me…

it makes me wonder if that’s the reason numbers go on into infinity?


Or perhaps our creators…from their lofty castles in the sky

never meant for us to count love…or even question why… 


But only to enjoy it…in whatever forms it may appear

as is accompanies us on our journey every day of every year.


Perhaps they only wanted us to feel lucky and be grateful

as they smile down at us from up above

every time we hear or say the words I love you

and for all the things there are in life to love.


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