A friend asked me what I’d been doing
lately. I told him I was reveling in the green.
“Oh!” he exclaimed. “Thank you for mentioning
that! I hadn’t been paying attention.”
I was as surprised by his reply as he had been
by mine. After all those colorless winter weeks
with their bare trees and barren ground,
how was it possible for anyone not to notice
the green? Not to walk, enveloped in it,
with a mouth dropped open in awe? Not
to want to do somersaults across it
out of sheer joy? Wake up! Wake up!
There’s a world out there bursting
with jewels, exploding with life,
dancing to the song of the Yes
with every molecule of its being.
Look! It’s right there. Just for you.