Light glimmers on green grass,
light like a laugh, light like
the swoop of flight

There is more here
than can be understood
in carbon cycles,
though that has its own beauty

This moment of uplift,
this mingling of sight and joy,
this delight of sharing essence
with another life form
is what will shine us
ever more clearly
in the eternity
which we know as home.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 10, 2023