GOODBYE MAY

Holy Moly. Where did the entire month of May go? Today...the final day of the 5th month of the year 2012, has been gorgeous. The bluebird sky, the wind blowing gently and lifting the tree limbs in a dance of shimmery greens...a busy male bluebird hunting bugs for his lady who sits on the eggs. The sun hot and the earth warm as I weed and mulch and feel the space around me. I am drifting...feeling myself embedded in the backdrop of beauty that I call home. My planet Earth. I feel her breath, lifting the curtain of sadness covering my heart and watch her winged beings cavorting on the draughts of deep sighs. I realize I have nothing to say that could improve on the beauty that is spread out before me. There is nothing I can add. As I think this thought, an indigo bunting lands in the bush beside me and melts me with his song. Perhaps all I have to offer this great symphony of planetary life, is my deep gratitude for all of it...every last species of it. I lull myself thinking perhaps this is enough. But how can it be? How can it be enough when stupid people throw their beer cans out their windows and toss their garbage like the scenic byways are their own private trash barrels. I'm grateful for the beauty but I'm god damn mad at the stupidity of humans and I'm not gonna shut up about it. Good bye May. Thank you for putting me into my gratitude. The vividness of your beauty in May takes my breath away. When I get it back...I want to sing praises to the beauty of the Earth and remind people of how they are screwing it all up for everyone for evermore. Goodbye May.