I keep mixing and remixing.
Here’s another version of “Thanks,” just in time for tomorrow.
I think it’s the best yet.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody…EF
“If the only prayer
You ever prayed
In your entire life
was “Thank You,“
It would be enough.”
— Meister Eckhart
THANKS
For mountains green with aspen stands,
fluttering like waving hands,
for broad lands,
I will give thanks.
For ember orange sunset glow,
purple skies burning low,
the days go,
and I will give thanks.
For silver incandescent moons,
every midnight howl and swoon,
real soon,
I will give thanks.
For each moment here, for each memory clear
For each day I wake, for each breath I take
For each pain I bear, for each love I share….
Thanks.
For berry’s taste and coffee’s smell
rituals we learn so well
that foretell
that I will give thanks.
For lovers touch and wounds that heal
friends who laugh and think and feel
when it’s real
I will give thanks.
For loving those the world rejects
the poor and holy heretics
it connects
that I will give thanks.
For each moment here, for each memory clear
For each day I wake, for each breath I take
For each pain I bear, for each love I share….
Thanks.
And is it really all that tough to believe one word could say enough?
For every blocked and crooked path
for every door that closed to fast
for the past
I will give thanks.
For every chance yet to forgive
and every second yet to live
that life gives
I will give thanks.
For times when death comes like a friend
and trusting life can never end
it’s well then that
I will give thanks.
For each moment here, for each memory clear
For each day I wake, for each breath I take
For each pain I bear, for each love I share….
Thanks.
words and music, Eric Folkerth © 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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