Giving

I am home alone this morning waking slowly
My only son is at a friends gone from this house
I'm slowly beginning the day with a cup of Joe
Looking through the windows to see as around I grouse

Quietly, Contemplatively, I enter the world gently
There is a part of me that wants to live it all again
There is a part of me that wants to go around the bend
I know what I have done and what I want to do in the end

I want to see beauty and reflect as a young man can't
The sunset in the desert, lightening storms by the beach
Cathedrals in Cities and jungles that can't be reached
With thoughts so simple that one could never teach

And yet my memory serves me so,
Like a painter, in my thoughts, I can go
Yet I can't just go, I have so much more to do, I know
To see joy in others I must give to make it so

Joe Michael Solomon