V. 2. / 12.) I Couldn't Say The Day The Leaves Came Out

I couldn’t say the day the leaves came out

When from winter’s death, spring came rushing up

Surging through the stem of me, waking me from sleep

Taking my part, taking me with it to use me again

From a time of barrenness to new flower and leaf

And soft painted pages of new sap wordlings

The timing of it never ours we cannot guess the day

Or know how much warmth and sunlight our spring needs

Or when inner rest has run its full course and won

And at last reaches up the stem to brave a new day

That our springtime will come again is certain

The world is round... never ceases to be so

I’m glad I don’t know the day my leaves come out

Glad my surprises come by surprise

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