Gratitude

Gratitude
A Grateful attitude
A gift
A choice
How to live and why to give
A means to rejoice.

Gratitude
A grateful attitude
Toward our sisters, our mothers,
Our fathers and brothers,
Toward others - and you.

Gratitude
A pattern, a path; a journey to share; a reason to care,
A way to soar and an open door,
A cause to laugh, perhaps to roar,
And so much more.

Yes, Gratitude
Is a grateful attitude
For wisdom and grace,
For courage and will,
For the whole of the universe and the bird on the sill.

Ah, Gratitude
The grateful attitude
Gift of each morning and choice of each night.
Help me to live you, teach me to give you,
Fill all my days with your joys and delight.

Oh, Gratitude
Sweet, sweet Gratitude,
Be the song that I sing and the flute that I play,
Be the treasure I carry within.
Be the dance that I dance and the poem that I pen
Be the prayer that I pray every day.

Beverly A. Kipp, August 2010