There Is No (Need For) Better

Standing on my deck this morning

enjoying fresh-picked strawberries

as the robins trilled in the rustling trees

the sun laid a warm hand on my forearm

and the tall grass swayed

to the morning music of bird and breeze

Would this moment be any better

spent basking in a Tuscan field?

Breathing Alpine perfumed air?

With some other meal,

some other song?

Perhaps beside a waterfall

or overlooking some verdant valley

with multitudes of wildlife

intermingling under cloudless skies?

Would any more abundant place

or more excited state of mind

make this moment less?

Take one shred of joy away

from the simple perfection of now?

This

This is it

and though it isn’t only here

it’s what I have

and it overflows.