I am alive

I am alive
even at this hour of the night
while the world is quietly sleeping
even my noisy black cat and my restless black lab
The only sounds I hear are from
my few fingers hitting these key board
the sleepy laptop humming sound
and perhaps all of the inner voices
running deep inside my ears
making a heat wave into my brain
draining into my soul
The trees over the hill
and the blue sky
flying high beneath my feet
up side down, or down side up
it does not matter
I am alive
I am thinking
I am hearing
my daily inner voice
I have so much to live
"...it's fixable," David Martin
I am alive
Good night my wife, daughters, black cat and dog,
and all the mices, the dimming woodstove
my mother, sisters, brothers and their families
my nieces, nephews and their families
my friends, a few less now; Rick with laryngitis,
Ned, his wife and going away to college daughter
Ours too..
I am alive
How lucky I am to be alive.....Good night
This is my daily inner voice tonight