Sensed you

Secretly Sensed You Everywhere

I’ve secretly sensed you everywhere

in birch trees

in crystal clear lakes

in cool misty mornings

in rolling every-shade-of-green hills

in grazing-upon-grass animals

in early dusk drives into the city

In shaded walks

in sun sifting through ivy

in small silent flowers

in the dawns and the dusks

and the mid-afternoons between

the two and the rising moon

And now this

in laughing trees

in windows everywhere

showing forest

in birds calling and cooing

for mates too far away to hear

I am caught now

in each

The vision

wraps a serene glow

around the tendrils

of my far-flung inattentiveness

and calls me home

- Joyce Rupp