Thank you in spite of it all

For the good, the bad, the rise, the fall

Thanks for the sound of rain

Thanks for the smell of burning leaves

Thanks for every breath I breathe 

Thanks for the morning sun

Thanks for the rising moon 

Thanks for the lazy afternoons

I’ll be me, and you’ll be you

In the music, find me, I’ll find you 

Thanks for white frost under foot

Thanks for summers cool grass

Thanks for sharing no future, sharing no past

Thanks for cold crisp mornings

Thanks for the crickets song

Thanks for the changing seasons pushing us along

Thank you in spite of it all

For the good, the bad, the rise, the fall