David Carlson
365 in every moment, in every action, we will feel the urge to say thank you
Day 365: Tuesday, March 15th, 2021
And in every moment, in every action, we will feel the urge to say thank you, we will follow the urge to bow.

One morning
we will wake up
and forget to build
that wall we’ve been building,
the one between us
the one we’ve been building
for years, perhaps
out of some sense
of right and boundary,
perhaps out of habit.

One morning
we will wake up
and let our empty hands
hang empty at our sides.
Perhaps they will rise,
as empty things
sometimes do
when blown
by the wind.
Perhaps they simply
will not remember
how to grasp, how to rage.

We will wake up
that morning
and we will have
misplaced all our theories
about why and how
and who did what
to whom, we will have mislaid
all our timelines
of when and plans of what
and we will not scramble
to write the plans and theories anew.

On that morning,
not much else
will have changed.
Whatever is blooming
will still be in bloom.
Whatever is wilting
will wilt. There will be fields
to plow and trains
to load and children
to feed and work to do.
And in every moment,
in every action, we will
feel the urge to say thank you,
we will follow the urge to bow.

Poem: "One Morning" by Wahtola Trommer
SONGS
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs
Walking on Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U
Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEeaS6fuUoA