“I thank you God for this most amazing day,

For the leaping greenly spirits of trees,

And for the blue dream of sky,

And for everything which is natural,

Which is infnite,

Which is yes.”

e.e. cummings

There once was a time in my life

When I didn’t appreciate the ‘yes’

There once was a time in my life

When I liked material things best

But as I’ve wandered along through life

My perspective has thankfully changed

Now I don’t care about the material things

My preferences in life have been rearranged

Now it’s the ‘yes’ things in life

That I now seem to treasure so

Now it’s the ‘yes’ things in life

That I marvel at wherever I go

There is one in my loving spouse’s smile

And in a good friend’s voice on the telephone

There is one in a shiny pebble on the lakeshore

I now seem to find these ‘yeses’ wherever I roam

They are in my flower garden

With its doves and sparrows

They’re in a deep blue river

As I stand wading its narrows

They’re in my vegetable garden

With its hot peppers and tomatoes

They’re in the red winged blackbird

Who perches on my old backyard pole

They’re in the dogs that faithfully follow me

Wherever I may happen to wander about now

And in the purring of my very contented felines

Who always seem to know the ‘yeses’ somehow

They’re the crickets I hear among the trees

As I joyously wander a green forested trail

They’re the tiny honey bees buzzing all about

They’re in the small slow moving garden snail

There’s definitely a ‘yes’ in the timber wolf’s howl

And in a flock of wild geese filling up the autumn sky

When I hear the magnificent wail of the northern loon

It’s ‘yes’ brings such a joyous sigh and a tear to my eye

They’re in the ancient song of the babbling brook

They’re in the glorious sun that gives life to earth

They’re in the billions of brilliant shining objects

That wondrously dot God’s magnificent universe

There are many ‘yes’ things yet to discover

And I now wonder just how many I will find

It’s amazing how concentrating on these ‘yeses’

Has been such a tremendous blessing to my mind

†2007, Mr. Ed