Why I Wake Early

poem- Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you, who make the morning
and spread it over the fields and
into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even,
the miserable and the crotchety-

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light-

Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning!

Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.