Of Everyday Awe

Sometimes I feel like I live at the kitchen sink, but its all because of scenes like this...

...and they remind me how truly blessed we are!

I love how things oft seen can still steal our breath away

And how life’s common happiness anoints each day we live

And I am ever grateful for the way time can amaze

Us with its ordinariness; the best it has to give

Why do we wish, so foolish-like when life whispers, ‘I’m dull’

Then sudden loss reminds us how full our pockets are

I love it when we whisper to our hearts ‘just be thankful’

Then, though ev’rything seems the same, it is transformed somehow

I love the way the wise men of this world don’t ask for much

But try to make the most of what they have; live-laugh-love-learn

I love the way a common day can slip through our touch

And leave within its wake an ache for its never-return

I love the clock, yet loathe it, young and old beneath its lock

As good and ill are ushered in, in moments softly sealed

Now-here-now-gone it seems to say with ev’ry tick and tock

Where we stay caught between The Seen and The Still Unrevealed

We live most of our lives in what might seem rather mundane

Off to market then home again, a clean-cook treasure-trove

I love how things oft seen that might seem quite common and plain

Can steal our breath and make us feel like kings because of love

© Janet Martin