There is sunlight in the forest today
Sifting through the trees
Like a luminescent waterfall
Crushing all darkness below
There is sunlight in the forest today
Where fawn-spotted mushrooms grow
Where lurks the red-tailed hawk
Whose back shimmers in the sun’s white rays
There is sunlight in the forest today
Guiding home all those lost
Illuminating the trail by the little stream
We hear only when it rains
There is sunlight in the forest today
It falls on my uplifted face
Bearing my soul
To the heavens above
Poetic Alchemist 