Happy Thanksgiving

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


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"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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