It isn’t enough to love deeply
or feel strongly as long as it
is being directed to something
outside of yourself.
For outside of you
the earth does not exist.
And so you come home
to being what you love deeply
and feel strongly
and the birds have been singing
this to you all along.
Vicki Woodyard
Birds never get it wrong, even the crows with their boisterous chatter,
Life is life adoring for the sake of being alive,
Wither a sparrow a blue jay or a beautiful blue bird,
Life in its apparent uniqueness, in concert as it rejoices the life it has been given