Sunlit Sidewalk Reflection

Late winter sunlit morning
Birds singing perched on barren branches
There is a fullness to the promise of the day

Hope
Joy
Peace
Are remembered
Felt
Dreamed of
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow

All part of a long ago experience
Based on ideas learned from
Books
Teachers
Friends
And illuminated by a sunlit morning
Where sidewalks warmed by the promise of spring
Led to a belief that
Living was more about being than becoming

Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. Read other articles by Paul.