Written piece
Enjoy it (Sunrise Sunset)
Grace Phillips
Barbados
About this piece
These are lyrics to a song that I wrote. Prompted by a comment during a conversation, it struck me like a jolt, how much of the simple every day gifts I took for granted, and did not take the time to enjoy them, as often as I should have.
Enjoy it (Sunrise Sunset)
Each day brings hope
A new surprise
Each day, each night
We pray, we rise
The rainbow’s arc
For me, for you
Sunrise, sunset
Enjoy it
The air we breathe
The sound of rain
The tide recedes
And comes again
The blues, the hues
For me, for you
Sunrise, sunset
Enjoy it
The leaves that rustle in the breeze
The birds take flight, oh wonder
The flowers grow
The roosters crow
The children echo yonder
Clouds change their shapes
Forms find their mates
We miss the sights before us
Take time, take time
For life’s sublime
God’s grandeur’s all around us
The insects chirp
Through starry scapes
The moon keeps watch
‘till morning breaks
The mist, the dew
For me, for you
Sunrise, sunset
Enjoy it
Sunrise, sunset
For me, for you
Sunrise, sunset
Enjoy it
By Grace E. Phillips