Padding along the trail, We ambled toward the car, Dog’s nose pressed to ground, Human noses pressed forward, Next stop, the car. My mind focused on that next thing.
Then, the screech of a red-tailed hawk, My eyes peered around me. Where does that clear, Piercing, cry come from? And there, off to the right Riding the air currents Along the length of the creekbed
Yesterday...
After the dog's bath.
My wife ambled her way to the garage door.
I let our dog down her ramp
And out of the car.
I watched our dog
Follow her Momma
To the door.
While my wife unlocked the door
I watched them both
From the car.
Both my girls.
The Beauties I live for.
My feelings in that moment
Were all gratitude
For it's simplicity
Nothing else mattered.
No event could eclipse
That picture in my mind.
That was all there was
Right then.
The expanse of my World,
Was funneled
Into 63 cubic feet.
But those 63 cubic feet
Were more expansive
Than all the Universe.
Only a fleeting cluster of photons,
Filtered into an optic nerve,
Gratitude distilled in a millisecond.
Summary: A poem by Mike Davis about remembering the times when you had fortitude
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