Joy pours down like an avalanche upon me
My head tips back and it all floods out of my mouth
Flying back into the heavens from whence it came
Absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to contain
And why on earth would I?!
Life is so GLORIOUS!
EXUBERANT!
Outrageously and beautifully ABUNDANT!
Oh the mischievous glance of friend
The instant before the punch line hits
Just enough time for that sublime gurgle of anticipation to arise
Mirth exploding out of me
Lighting up my body like a firework
That moment
When one finds a child
Face blotched with marker
Tipped head first into a laundry basket, legs flailing
Precocious words escaping their mouths
Barely time to register before the eruption occurs
You stop time on purpose
To receive the wonderful slap of surprise
To commit the delightful shock to memory
“I might need this someday…”
And sometimes
When life feels sticky and serious
God sends a fairy
Flitting glibly through my mind
And I double over, face in hands
And remember, that all the magic the entire world could ever need
Is contained in one bright orange flower
Yet there galaxies spinning endlessly into the night
Porcupines and ostriches and blowfish
Kangaroos and penguins and rainbow colored mountains
That all of this and more lives within ME
And the laughter of joyful victory washes every cell of me clean
For tomorrow
The sun and I
Will
RISE
And if you want an extra treat along the lines of this wonder…
The Eye of the Needle 