This morning I opened my eyes.
I stretched…
I smiled…
Freedom!
A beautiful day with the rooster crowing
His perfectly obnoxious cry.
A new day.
A new start.
To the “best summer ever.”
The last year has been chaotic.
School in pandemic times.
Isolation…
Zooms…
Worry…
Yesterday morning I opened my eyes.
Bittersweet emotions…
Saying goodbye…
The end of a crazy year.
Sister!!!! I am a high school teacher in British Columbia and I feeeel this poem. The joy of opening your eyes to a new day after this crazy year is so clearly singing through this piece…and how we, as teachers, feel the pain of year endings in our rear-view mirror even into the first day of “freedom.”
Thank you for sharing your joy with us.