Brian’sPoems

A Humbling Gratitude

Awareness makes the heart grow.

Gratitude opens a door
for me to move forward
and into a deeper space
where I become present.

I listen as a man weeps
while telling the story of a dog
who accompanied him
through a difficult recovery.

Next I hear the story
from an awakened man
not willing to embrace
the cancer that took his wife,
nor the addiction hobbling his son,
yet he is mystically aware
these are somehow precious gifts.

There are powerful metaphors,
but none more potent
than our lived experiences
now become the flesh and bones
of our daily lives.