I open my eyes,

Get out of bed,

And I know,

I know this is a good day.

I open the curtains

Look out the window,

My world is there,

This is a good day.

It may be clear and bright,

It may be grey and dull,

It may be raining,

But it is still a good day,

As I have learned to dance,

Learned to dance in the rain.

Downstairs I go

Switch on the radio,

The glory of music is there,

There for me,

This is a good day.

I look out into the garden,

Nature shows her beauty,

As the colours inspire me,

This is a good day.

The day sails through me

Where each moment is precious,

To be treasured

As they will not return.

I could be lost in a book,

Lost in words as I write,

Sailing through the ether,

To the sounds of music,

This is a good day.

The day is ended

And I go to sleep,

Confident that tomorrow will come,

And it will be a good day.

The page sits before me,

The first word gets written

And I am lost,

Lost the world of words,

Lost in the emotions

That flow through me

As the words grace the page.

It could be of love,

The love of others,

The love of nature,

It could be of music.

That music which means so much

As it sails into my body,

And will be with me for eternity.

It could be art,

The wonder of an artist

Showing me the world

In a different way,

So my mind broadens.

The reverie of life is always with me

As I write,

Write these words

Where time flows,

Where time no longer exists,

And where my mind is not of this world,

But lost,

Lost in the words,

The words on this page.

In this age all want,

Want more.

More this,

More that.

More money,

More power,

They want all,

All for themselves.

I want for nothing.

I have the love of my wife,

I have the love of my family,

I have the love of my friends.

I have good health,

I have the wonder of nature,

I have the beauty of music,

I have the glory of art,

I have words to write.

I have time,

Time to enjoy all of these.

I have time,

Time to help others,

To give that most precious of gifts,

The gift of time.

Time that can be given

From me,

To you,

Without cost,

But with love.

I awake in the darkness,

The summer mornings are closing,

Autumn approaches,

That time when nature changes,

Changes into its full beauty,

That colourful beauty

Of yellow, orange and red.

The brush of an artist tries

Tries to capture the feeling,

But nature has too many colours,

Too many unseen hues.

This is my time,

My time to walk within natures art,

Marvel at its creation,

Stand amongst its wonder,

Lifting me to a higher land,

Where My Spirit shows me the way.

There it sits before me,

A visual image of delight.

The whites, yellows and browns

Intermixing into a visual paradise

That pulls me into it.

The more I progress

The more I see,

The more I see in my mind.

I become lost from my world

Becoming found in the artists world.

I look, I see, I feel,

Feel what?

Feel emotion

As the picture pulls me,

Pulls me into the ether

And takes me towards infinity.

Once more my mind is opened,

Opened by the image before me.

What is it that calls to me,

This splash of colours

Seemingly thrown haphazardly

Onto the canvas.

No noticeable form,

No noticeable structure,

But to me I am pulled in,

Pulled into the painting,

As if it were part of me,

Part of my life.

The artist thrills me,

Thrills me with his works,

But his abstracts take me further,

Take me to a place,

Where my thoughts become emblazoned.

Emblazoned with light,

Emblazoned with joy,

Emblazoned with love,

That place where euphoria dwells,

And all is at peace.

There he lays in his blackened room,

No light touches him

As his dark thoughts assail his mind,

Taking him down to the abyss of hell.

Their he stands in the light of the world,

The darkness avoids him

As his mind is filled with glory,

Taking him up into natures heaven.

The two of them,

Opposite in nature,

But together in words.

His darkened thoughts move into reality

As his mind keeps falling,

Into the darkened chasm,

Which pulls life from him.

His enlightened thoughts move into reality,

His mind keeps rising,

Up into the star filled future,

Instilling more life into him.

The two of them,

Opposite in nature,

But together in words.

The blackness encroaches evermore,

Until his soul enters the ether.

The lightness abounds in him,

Freeing his soul into the ether.

The two souls approach,

And come together as one,

Normality prevails.

You go through life looking for it,

Looking for that one opening

Where you can move towards success.

Looking for that opportunity,

Looking for a way to move forward.

All you see is a wall before you,

No way to get further into life.

You just need that one opportunity

But there seems to be no way to succeed.

That opportunity can be found,

Because if opportunity does not knock,

All you need to do,

Is build a door in that wall.