A Morning Dew

	Out the kitchen window, 
	  the pale blue-lit bowl
	Awakens the trees, the grass, 
	  and the soul.
        Over the horizon, 
	  potent and round:
        This day's sun harbors promise 
	  of New Life as it's found.

	Today -- one more day in this human life
	  Yet one more moment for joy or for strife,
	I greet thee! Morning, with hopes and with fears
	  And with God at my side, with far fewer tears...

	The squirrels chatter merrily, 
	  as they dig and they toil:
	(Wouldn't it be neat to live
	  the life of a squirrel?)

	Birds ready their flight 
	  in the coolness of fall
	Catching up with their friends:
	  South they go!  Hear their call!

	Ah!  Time must come
	  to leave Morning Dew,
	Thank you, God, for today!
	  For your World, and for You.

				7:45am  10/19/1998
				D.Eisenstein
				(C) 1998.