Kit Kelen #857 - every day I walk out among wonders

857

every day I walk out among wonders

sun never touched twice the same

I do it in socks

in thongs sometimes

this is the way I call the place home

it's where the wonders call to me

still some of the creatures survive

things first lit for who they are

for what

we can't know why

everyday I walk out among wonders

it's lovely to be out

it's as if they all had waited for me

though that can't be right

I know I didn't grow on the spot

I'm in training, like the vine

some breeze has to have blown me to here

the tree still stands

we might perhaps worship?

at least why should we not bow to greet?

and there's a party in the branches

you only have to look up!

every season's in it

weather!

a leaf from the book

birds are not long for

all flit

they give singing lessons

here with my voice

I commit to this love

I wake to wonders already there

(if my kind were gone, there'd be more!)

could be down in the mouth with to-do

not only disasters that befall

but worst of us is yet to come

it's trial and error how we're here

still in this place above me is blue

clouds you could tether for pets

and when they're out of the picture

there are stars

they tell time back

beyond you can see

remind me the world is whirling around

even on a dead still day

hope is my path ahead

all patience now

for the wonders that come

and all unbidden

we two-legs in the plastic now

must struggle to see our own carnage

the centuries against each other

for one or other stupid idea

just a breath of this world sets right

more and ever more wonders still hidden

o what a cliché to 'save the world'

the world's what we're saving here

time's with us and against us too

every day I walk out among wonders

they're the why-to-fight