A Light Exists in Spring (poem by Emily Dickonson)
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here
…as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren’t enough,
as if joy weren’t strewn all around.
I want to serve you full choruses of hallelujah, oh so wholly
here in this moment. Oh so holy here in this world.
Then I knew I loved my neighbor
even better than before,
for now I loved him as myself
and loved myself much more.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Blessed are you who rage at injustice,
yet at peace deep within the heart.
Grown tired of this rank summer’s wealth,
Its raw and superficial show…
When someone deeply listens to you,
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –…
I love my life
More than I ever thought I could
Because I’ve learned I can’t die.
Plaques like these by elementary school aged children are scattered all over the peace garden near the Sacramento capitol.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.