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One of the benefits to being an early riser…

is I am blessed to hear and see the interplay

between the night as she clocks out

and cedes the mountains to the day.

There is a lonely owl who, if I’m early enough,

from her spot hidden in the trees

sings a lovely nightly swan song and sets it on the breeze.

She sings in a beautiful soprano…

clear, peaceful and bright…

as she anticipates the day…

with one final nocturne to the night

I think of it as the concluding song of an opera

and how, once her final song is through,

the birds who wake up with the day

begin their musical revue.

Perhaps she’s singing a wake-up song

A gentle musical number

into the ears of the morning birds

awakening them from their slumber.

And perhaps their singing in the morning

once their music fills the sky…

which to me seems like a symphony

to the owl …s a lullaby.

At any rate is it a wonderful way

for each new day to begin…

watching and listening to the nigh clock out

while the day is clocking in.