Saturday, August 28, 2021

New poem: "One of Those Days"

 

One of Those Days

 

“It’s going to be one of those days, is it?”

I said to myself when I stuck my lawn sprinkler

into the ground this morning and the pointed

plastic insert broke off because I pressed it

into the ground on a slant and the pressure

caused it to snap, and as I went about my day

as I usually did, whatever I did went slightly

askew, nothing significant, but obvious enough

to let me know that if I continued in that rhythm,

my whole day would be ruined; so, I pleaded

with my inner guiding principle to set my day

straight, and in silent contemplation it came

to me that I had slipped out of the natural rhythm

of my daily life because I had broken the pattern

of my morning routine by adding two glasses

of tap water to the coffee maker because I did

not have enough water in our Brita water filter

that I always use when making coffee, and out

of the blue it came to me that to get back into

syn with life, I had to put myself into a state

of grace and align myself with the harmonious

rhythm of life, and I sat back again and closed

my eyes and filled my mind with thoughts of love,

remembering all those wonderful moments in my

life that filled my heart with the holy goodness

of joy and laughter; and I knew, as certain as God

made little green apples, that grace was the way

to chase the trickster away and get my life back

on track with my destined purpose of living

my life to the fullest.

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