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Happy Thanksgiving!

Grateful for the call
Grateful for the maze
Grateful when I fall
Or get lost in the haze
Grateful when I’m found
When you come around
Grateful for the road
A place to rebound
For the miles lived thru
To be unafraid
The gifts of this life
Avoiding the blade
Shattered and blue
Gathered back up
Grateful for you
And your infinite cup
rebuilt but strong
Grateful for love
I put in my song
A place to belong
Comes from somewhere
I’ll never go
but I always am
In each flake of snow
Like dreams falling down
An infinite sky
Grateful for laughter
And the tears that we cry
Grateful for peace
For the comfort and gift
Grateful to reach
Thank you for the lift
Grateful to come
From some far off land
To be carried by what
I could not understand
Grateful for love
Grateful for him
Grateful for her and
For trusting in them
Grateful for Nashville
For Detroit and for France
And for being aloud
To let my mind dance
Grateful for caring
Grateful for hope
For some how avoiding
The end of the rope
Grateful for water
The moon and the sun
For the health of my body
To let my dreams run
Happy thanksgiving
Grateful each day
Not quite home
But places to stay
Someone to hold
When loneliness calls
Places to hide
From the eyes in the walls
Grateful for trust
Grateful for for air
The slowness of rust
My quickness to share
Grateful for help
Grateful for snow
Grateful to yelp
And have places to go
Grateful you want me
To wander back home
Grateful it’s there
To not be alone
And when I am
To have voices inside
Guiding my will
For my dreams to confide
Holding old songs
To the infinite light
Grateful for day and
Blessed in the night
Ecstatic loose ends
Depressive control
When everything blends
Into a green soul
And blossoms in flowers
Majestic and free
Gratitude like a flame
Born in a tree
To branch reaching up
To touch what creates
The drink in the cup
And the food on their plates
Thank you I say
And thank you again
May I always know you
And call you my friend.

Happy Thanksgiving !