Strong Like Any Other Day

I’m awoken every morning with the yapping of birds Perhaps the only exhortation to swell and spread my buds For sundry to see, to digest whatever meal I serve For this day like any other, different dish I prime Forget what you saw yesterday Didn’t you see the day retreat into the silent night? Didn’t you see the sun wane into a lobe so beautiful at dusk? Me saw it pregnant, retreating to surface with greater good Fresh as it calls, bringing with it tidings So longed for, so much coveted glidings So I majestically swim in its waves With timid jumpsuit washed away, awash in its claves Am puffed up at the tick of every hour On thorny and snaking road I meander Determinedly employing every slither to thither For yesterday I was afraid of the mileage and I covet their power The courage you see, the scars you count, the bruises that bleed timely Say not sorry to me, because they fuel my grit and bleed not blood But life that I so much desire!