Good Morning

September 1, 2020  |  By Karen Cavender

August perennials: Echinops (“globe thistle”), monarda (“bee balm”), rudbeckia (“black-eyed Susan”) Photo by Karen Cavender.

This is not a dress rehearsal

For another kind of life

There is golden at the door

Do you see it

Lay down your heavy burdens 

They are trouble for another day 

Meanwhile the world goes on

Let’s greet this day 

This fresh new start

Come on

I’ll hold the door for you

Karen Cavender lives in Waterbury Center. She shares her Good Morning poems with family and friends and Waterbury Roundabout.