Taste the joy

Some times our hopes and wishes and dreams

Rob us

Of presence

Of touching base with the simple gift

Of this present moment

Sometimes the pain we are in

Makes us forget

There is a way to feel

Well again

But oh the cure is so difficult to find

Some times

There is a breath of air

That lifts my soul

There is a star out there

With my name written upon it

Lately I understand

So much more

How I sacrificed my own peace

To illusions

And yet that was the path

My higher power had me travel

So that now I never forget to give thanks

For with all that I suffered

I was also given so much

And the saddest times came

From closing down

From not keeping my heart open enough

To receive and celebrate

These simple present moments

So full to the brim

And pregnant with Joy