Overnight Mail

I have walked with you here

Over and over again,

Same familiar nuanced path

Same eager wobbly steps,

Same weary hopeful breaths

Over and over again

I have traversed with you here

To catch the Light, delivered

To receive the overnight mail

of THIS new day

Dependably brought

with same urgency,

Importance, preciousness

Like yesterday’s Delivery

Seamlessly unrushed, yet to arrive

Just in time, for mornings moment

Making way all those miles

Arcing through sky,

on contrails of mystery

while I’m sleeping, dreaming, casting

The overnight mail’s arrival greets me

As if now she’s expecting my signature

My acknowledgment of miraculous receipt

My responsibility of care as to

the preciousness of THIS new day

I will not return, abandon, or neglect

I will praise, honor and respect

What Nature moved mountains beyond

mountains to bring to me here yet again

right to my sandy feet

Over and over again, the mail comes in

What I have spoken to the stars

Magically delivered from afar…

Answers to all my questions,

Hand written here by the patterns of frost

forming todays new neural pathways of

remembrance—

Always to begin again, with THIS new day

Urgent, important, precious,

Seamlessly unrushed

Yet to arrive just in time,

for this moment of glory, a delight;

The deliverance from missing

my life’s whole package—

My presence with each moment

Every familiar, nuanced, eager, wobbly,

weary, hopeful moment

May I be here now for the all-of-it

Seamlessly unrushed, just in time