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Catch the Whole Show
For a while now I've been walking,
watching as patches of milky clouds glide over the morning sky
and observing the dances performed by all the trees
who sway to the music of the wind,
and even though they're each completely unalike,
their movement create a uniform wave of serenity
that washes over me
and then pulls back into its sea of blue possiblities.
The sun doesn't rashly shine a spotlight on any single dancer--
rather the light becomes speckled through their woody arms
and it peeks through the dense neighborhoods of green
all the way down to me,
as if to catch my eye and make sure
I'm still looking up.
Entranced, I keep gazing,
and as the trees change costume
and add spots of red, orange, and yellow,
awe fills up my chest
as the green tide turns into a gradient of mahogany
that ripplies like the deep scarlet curtain
signaling the close to a grand performance.
I don't know when or how it will end,
but hopefully I'll still have my chin up often enough
so I can catch the whole show.
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