If
If I were a tree, I would be a cherry
with delicate pink blossoms that bud in the spring.
If I were a flower I would be a violet
that merrily dances in fields fresh and green.
If I were water I would be a brook
that babbles along merrily around bends and crooks.
If I were a bird I’d be colorful and bright
with an iridescence that would that would glow in the night.
I’d flitter and hum around every colorful flower
and be filled with sweet nectar from hour to hour.
If I were the firmament I would be the night sky.
My stars and my planets how they’d twinkle and shine.
Alas, though I dream, I am none of these things.
But I thank God every day for the joy these things bring.