Awake at Dawn
                              
                              gently parting the soft moist petals
                              in the glow of a fresh morning's dew--
                               whispered welcome to a new dawn.
                            an embrace almost electric--
                               an invitation from a world,
                                 first steps on a middle way
                             balancing wakefulness with wonder
                                 in a soul's final reckoning . . .
                                     the ashes from last night's fire
                                       drift away forever,
                                          lifted to an unknowing fate
                                            on a nameless wind
                                     that beckons us also to risk the journey . . .