Speaking with you is like a warm summer breeze
When you find just that sunny spot and can lean back with ease
I listen to your stories, full of wisdom acquired through experience
and each time you lean in close to whisper, I too lean forward to catch the lesson
When you find just that sunny spot and can lean back with ease
I listen to your stories, full of wisdom acquired through experience
and each time you lean in close to whisper, I too lean forward to catch the lesson
It’s like the leaves are rustling through the trees
and your hands have lines like the ridges on bark
and your knuckles like roots coming up from the earth
and your hair like snow banks without a sound
You are regal like a King or Queen
and your decisions feel like the law of this land
For as long as you lived
You speak with the discerning tone of one who will readily understand
Any of us with any youth still left in us
Do well to listen carefully to all that you gift to us today
Tomorrow there will be another challenge for us and for you
And then you will have something very different to say
Ah yes there is a warm summer breeze blowing
And I am coming in close to take in all that I can
I have cried, I have felt desperate, I have wanted to give up
and you listen, and acknowledge and you tell me just how to keep going
Oh, beautiful brother, my dear most beautiful sister, and friend
Thank you for sharing your insight that has you with us here today
With a smile on your face, and blessings upon your lips
taking us all in, accepting us for who we are, and still so full of gratitude
But you do not know just how much good you do
for being here with us and giving us a part of you.
We are the better for it.
- Les'Nspired
