
Let me be grateful, even when it is painful

The smell of crispy apples baking in the oven
The sound of a boy practising his violin scales
The sight of Canadian geese in a v in the heavens
The touch of a newborn’s fingers and nails
Let me be grateful, even when it is painful
Do not let me take you, nor life, for granted
But may such heartbeat be to your praise
When running alongside the Oxford Canal
When cycling through busy Broad Street
Reading 14thc. weather reports in the Annales
Finding a library that combines beauty and heat
Let me be grateful, even when it is painful
Do not let me take you, nor life, for granted
But may such heartbeat be to your praise
Uprootedness and its constant game of change
A season of retreat so to recover oneself
The vivid past and blurry present so to rearrange
embracing the here and now despite itself
Let me be grateful, even when it is painful
Do not let me take you, nor life, for granted
But may such heartbeat be to your praise