Waking

WAKING There are so many dreams no one ever realizes We wake and try to understand where we are What we have done in all the years seems folly Nothing can justify this morning or the day to come We have forgotten who we are and where we have been The prayer that helps us and connects us back to God Revives We begin to live or try to begin to live Our names are not known and our work uncelebrated Our songs are not sung and our labors not blessed We look out and up at the sky and feel light We do not know how or why or in what way But we understand that God has given mornings to begin again We will take the first step and word and taste and sound And all we feel and be will begin to revive We will connect ourselves again with where we are We will begin to work And as the day slowly comes back to us we will come back to ourselves Every day is a new beginning and a world G-d will make We too are that world and that beginning In all the many days of blessings and the years of this life God has enabled us to begin again This time now too is now different And these words say we are here now for this morning So long as this morning is in us.