Open Your Eyes

The daily refrain: open your eyes.

I vow to avoid envying those born with open eyes.

Having to learn (over and over)

to notice my world, my life,

from stem to stern,

from here to yonder—

having to focus consciously on this

makes me no less valuable

than those who have known it from the start.

 

So keep rewording the refrain.

Reframe it each morning to meet

that day's needs.

Pay attention.

Notice.

Be here.

Be in the moment.

Or, simply, open your eyes,

for that way leads to joy

(pardon my optimism).

That way leads you to know

that This Is Happiness.

Open your eyes and you will know it.

 

 

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