For Dad. Happy Birthday!

 

Flowers, unable to contain their mirth,

earth’s red, purple, and blue delight

echoing everywhere we walk.

 

Mountain air expanding us

with each breath until we become

free as sky, steady as rocks.

 

Lakes, mirroring the sky,

pure, cold, and full of fish,

darting arrows pointing to dinner.

 

Companionship and ease,

gentle conversation, genuine laughter,

warming and brightening cold nights.

 

Love, like no other love,

deep, wide, free,

stretching beyond mountains and meadows.