A Scarlet Tanager is Singing in a Walnut Tree

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

Could you for a moment

look up and seek with your

weary eyes

the one singing high in the walnut,

and wonder about him

and this passion he has

beating beneath scarlet feathers -

this passion that keeps

him giving voice to

whatever the day is and is going to be?

Are we all born equally this way,

so simply,

beauty?

So simply,

expressions of ourselves?

I think we are.

And, I think this is true too

of the grey squirrel who plants forests

and the rabbit chewing on dandelion leaves at dusk

and the dandelion being

devoured by a satisfied rabbit.

And the frog.

Most definitely, the frog.

We needn’t try so hard.

Really.

We needn’t.

I assure you.

But, who convinced us otherwise,

and why?

This is a big curiosity.

Do you also think about these things?

I, for one, want to be me,

And to consider that

simply,

enough.

I think this is what the world

needs most of me

right now:

To simply be,

enough.

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

Published in "Coming Home: Learning to Actively Love this World"

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