Simon Visscher - Gratefulness

Gratefulness

The sun rises …… above the silent land …….. to welcome the day …….. to come …..
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Birds wake the living …… with their morning songs ……
Clouds and wind, rain, sun, or thunder …….
This world, a stage ……. set for a day of wonder
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I was called upon ……. to write a song on gratitude ……
To paint in words a picture ……. of what words cannot express …….

I breathe in ………. and out, and in again ……
And feel what senses can unveil ……
Children’s laughter, and the smell of trees …..
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Grateful for the dawn, grateful for the dusk ……
For pain and for joy ……
Grateful for history, and for future ……
For knowledge gained, and yet to be gained ……
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People take for granted …… what they claim to understand ……
When wonder turns to prejudice ……. the child’s eye is dead ……

Searching for what binds us …… and how we came to be ……
I’m grateful for the universe, though it’s no harmony ……
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I was called upon …… to write a song on gratitude …….
And I failed, for words cannot express what cannot be said.

Simon, May 2017