When early enough

Up early to take the daughter and French student to school.  I resist the urge to go back to bed.  I listen to the cardinal.  He matches the kitchen.  Different thoughts arise when I am up with the sun.

When

Early enough

I can

Climb out of bed

With the sun

And the cardinal

Sings me just awake enough

Before the anxious thoughts

Take hold.

Then

Only then

I write those first thoughts down

Sometimes

I even write them up

Lift them skyward

In homage to the sun

Revere all that is already here

Like now

Truly

It is early enough

I am enough awake

The cardinal sings me up

With the sun.