Awakening


Morning stretches across the river’s curve,
Its golden fingers lifting the hush of frost—
The earth exhales, slow and knowing,
Pulling warmth into its marrow.

A chorus stirs in the branches,
Hushed at first, then spilling upward
Like the sky has loosed its silence,
Unfurling wings in quiet praise.

See how the lilac dares its first bloom,
How the meadow drinks the dawn.
Light does not command—it calls,
And nature answers, rising, reaching—
As if it never forgot how to love the sun.