January 18, 2025

Confident

As confident as I am that after summer,
winter will soon follow,


I know, I know 


that at the end of the day the sun will sink low

and then soon the moon will rise 

and there is a place in california 

where you can see them both 


I know it to be unchanging 

cycles and seasons

the angles of the globe 

the perfection of the complex system

sustaining life to what we’ve yet 

to discover of the cosmos 

I know I can trust that I can close my eyes

and wake for a new day to show 

that natural boundaries determine where a tree’s roots will bend and the rivers will flow 


I know that my little nature companions will always have a home 

as they instinctively go go go:

the comical robin, the musical mocking bird, and the sweet little hopping sparrow 


I know the cycles of birth, rebirth, and growth 

in the springtime will burst forth with a blooming bellow 


In the same vein 

I know, I know 

I can trust who made this all so. 


(Ps 74-76)


-Les’Nspired




Written: July 6, 2024