These Ruby Moments

Sipping on my ruby wine

its bottle, a monolith beside me

sprouting from the unkept grass

I can't help laughing between smiles

I throw my head back and high above,

white streaks of a brush on the blue canva

ephemeral clouds of innate beauty, life's art

Sitting there, gratitude fills me, in this

tiny corner of heavenly solitude, blessed with

a soft breeze, grazing bumblebees, one hundred birds

and the sun... Never really alone, am I?

And a plane passes by, its sound, all-encompassing

I revel in loneliness, contemplation

no desire nor will, simply a mind, living

In love with the world, for how beautiful it all is

A perfect balance of Nature

And in these few minutes, of peace and bliss, I thank myself

for being who I am. Of seeing and living and adoring these ruby moments

of lucidity, of life, of gratefulness to existence,

more than human, I am here