A Glorious Day

The day was sun kissed in that summer way

Flowers blooming in poetic profusion

added to my happiness in being alive

Even the concrete sidewalk felt different

Comfortable, as I walked along familiar streets

 

The whizzing traffic and car horns

A cacophony of sounds cocooning me

Rich accents in a myriad of conversations

Simultaneously ebbing and flowing as I walked

 

The aroma of fresh baking bread

as I pass the Eagle bakery

stops my movement for a moment

and I think about going in

 

But my mind is too adventurous

to give up even one minute

of this glorious day

So I walk on

 

Neighbors nod as I pass

navigating our way on the sidewalks

Now a roadway

of alternating walking patterns

 

My destination

lies one block away

I can see the trees peeking

over the three story houses

and I smile

 

This park is my muse

My familiar happy place

My escape and my

Lifelong friend

 

I walk through

its cast iron, gated entrance

And the noise of the city streets

Evaporates like magic

 

I hear birdsongs

I feel sunshine

I breath

the sweet, sun kissed air

 

And I am light

And free

And one again

with nature