On the Way to BART this Morning

Big bright bubbles of sunny laughter burst

from my lungs and I grin with the blue sky,

It's a beautiful day today.

Smiling at the cute chick biking with her brown

leather vest hugging her black and white horizontal

stripe shirt pedaling her fixie downhill in rhythm to

Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"

filling my head as I skip down the street

and I grin with the green trees.

Smiling at the deliciously heady scent of onion bagel

wafting out from Specialty's at the corner
with its burgundy parasols dotting the front,

tempting the passerbys to take a minute, enjoy
sipping coffee, munching cinnamon sugar morning bun,

a slice of heaven right there, in the concrete jungle,

and I grin with the chattering birds.

Smiling at the woman in her smart chocolate suit

with a fluff of afro, chic sunglasses,
clickety clack of  her stiletto heels reverberating,

Elderly couple walking hand in hand,

matching pastel yellow hooded sweatshirt,

a gigantic fanny pack decorating her belly,

a tiny boxy ice cooler trailing him,

I wonder if Travis and I will be like that one day.

I smile and I laugh, joyously, 

letting the bubbles burst forth once more,

lifting my head up to the sky,

breathing in this lovely day.

Thank you, Mother Earth, for this moment,

I am truly blessed because I love to live and I live to love.