The finch flies full from the feeder
Exuberance filling its chest
With the song of life
Nature’s biggest hit sung for millennia
On mountains, deserts and under seas
Not knowing what this life is
Nor caring for an explanation
But celebrated with exuberance undefined
Fawns jump legs wound tight with springs of joy
Amoebas wiggle and molecules realign
Across the seconds through millennia
Life bursts from every sidewalk crack
To every inch of every rainforest
The simple awareness of being swells my heart
Grabbing every moment holding it dear
Afraid to let it go like a breath
The breath that is all we have
Greater only by volume than the finch’s
No choice but to exhale
Back into the blue orb
Who readies the next breath
And the next until breathless