o sweet gray day

o sweet gray day
drab and bleak and gloomy:
i praise you, universe,
for the flowers and the wind

i praise you, love, for light
and you earth, for bird's song.
i greet you, great silence,
deep and wide inside

i greet you, space to breathe,
i embrace you and me ,
and i caress you, the tree,
the green moss for me to see

i praise you, water,
for your flow
and i thank you, salt
to give me taste

o sweet gray day
i praise you
as i came alive
like a cloud in the sky

to sail away, weightless,
to change and rain and fly.
i thank you,universe,
for the roots you gave

for my heaviness to stay
on this soil and ground
where i met and found
the gift of moving, walking

i thank you that i may not know
what will be tomorrow
and not the end of time:
there is no plan for living.