While on Campus

While on Campus

I was walking about

Minding my own business

Staring down at me feet

As Usual

(As most of us humans often do)

Unaware

Of the beauty

That surrounded me

While on campus

That day

I realized

I had been

Missing

Oh so much Beauty

The nature

The paths 

The love

The aspiring

All I needed

Was

To look up

And 

When I did

That day

While on campus

I saw the happiest

Little creature that I

Had ever seen.

A Robin

Chirping and Hopping

Around the grass

A stick in its beak

Only to drop the stick

Periodically

To chirp 

A note of joy

That small chirp 

Reached my ears 

And 

Drew a smile upon

These Lips

The Robin

Right then

Was the happiest 

Creature

Known

To this human

This Human received joy

From the chirp

Of a red breasted bird

I wonder how much

JOY

I can receive 

If I

Would just look up 

more often

And LISTEN more often.

Father 

Shut these lips

Of mine

With a Smile

And 

Open my ears

To your creative beauty

Once again.

Thank You.