Song for Mitch

If I could give you

anything

it would be a world

filled with toads

and frogs

hopping all around

you, warts and all

everything amphibian

is what I wish

for you –

I leave the leaves

in winter so

spring can bring the

croak and hop

this I do

for you,

hoppity hop.

 

The monarch wanders

through my yard

finding nectar

and settling on

the milkweed

and then

come the caterpillars

yes I let them

be so you can

see them every

year that

circles through

your growing bones,

the caterpillars I

leave alone

let them nestle while

they turn to

butterflies.

 

Goldfinch eat

the seed of

echinacea left to

catch the snowflakes

brought by

December winds

the yellow fading

into green – I

see them through

my window and

they are a gift

from nature when

the days are

dark and drear I

leave the echinacea

as a gift to you.

 

Bright eyed boy

with forever

smiles I wish

for you every

gift the earth

has blessed us

with.

I hope you

always treasure

them as much

as I treasure you.