Maybe there’s no need
to talk much
about the new awakening
Maybe it’s plenty good
to just listen
to the yawning and stretching
and the stunned silences
and the quiet gasps
and involuntary cries
Maybe we don’t need
to tell each other to awake,
for perhaps we all
are the dawn chorus.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 1, 2015

photo by Edward Mulhern