as I sit beneath a Tennessee sky
pondering my own dumb luck
I recognize how fortunate
I have been
always
and I know that this is not the end
that there never really is an end
just endings
and
beginnings
over and over and
over again
so i ground myself in now
right here
right now
with THANK YOU forever on my lips
and an irrepressible joy
tattooed on my heart…