<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">I Was Going To Tell You<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0in;">I was going tell you </div><div style="margin: 0in;">how I wake each morning to dark foreboding</div><div style="margin: 0in;">until the mournful wails of the wild peacocks on the hill,</div><div style="margin: 0in;">(all competing for most lugubrious)</div><div style="margin: 0in;">mock my depression, and I have to laugh out-loud.</div><p class="ydp15316ebaMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in;">Then, I get to walk into my bright kitchen,</div><div style="margin: 0in;">morning sun <i>pouring in like butterscotch,</i></div><div style="margin: 0in;">smell the rich coffee, scent of dark chocolate.</div><p class="ydp15316ebaMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in;">I was going to tell you </div><div style="margin: 0in;">about the morning news on the radio</div><div style="margin: 0in;">Apocalypse coming, here now!</div><p class="ydp15316ebaMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in;">But now, outside my window</div><div style="margin: 0in;">a tiny lizard is doing serious pushups on the deck</div><div style="margin: 0in;">and the comedy fills me</div><div style="margin: 0in;">with unexpected joy</div><p class="ydp15316ebaMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in;">I was going to tell you</div><div style="margin: 0in;">about my fear for our grandchildren’s future</div><div style="margin: 0in;">how each day I feel helpless</div><p class="ydp15316ebaMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in;">Then this afternoon, I find that the broken </div><div style="margin: 0in;">tomato seedling I have tended</div><div style="margin: 0in;">is growing tiny new leaves.</div><div style="margin: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Suze Cohan</div></div></div></div></body></html>