onto this new day

onto and unto this new day

when first comes my morning’s breath

i shall smile and laugh upon the tangles

and tugs in the face of death

i hear the melodies of my waking friends

the cardinal’s whistle, the melodious wrens

they’ll lift my body from recumbent dreams

to amble out onto Nature’s streams

a 'sol' of warmth,  a breath of soft wind

shall start my waking day, the night on end

naked feet will be tickled by grass and dew

and my spirit brimming with life’s anew

bring all the pain and angst you can muster

for i’ll still dance amidst a daffodil cluster

the song of a robin and a finch

shall lift my spirit in a pinch

come, share with me, embrace the day

for all too soon this will give way

to the moon and stars in night’s abode

but that too is dream filled, so, i am told