With this Breath- A Poem for Thanksgiving

With this Breath

(a poem for Thanksgiving)

With this breath I whisper

words of my forgetting

For memory fails me when

I reach back

to my beginning

You were there in that

moment of mystery

When life filled my frame

and Spirit poured

into my being

So many breaths I have

 taken without notice

But now I pause to

remember from where

life came

You must smile at our time

of “Thanksgiving,”

For you remember what

 we so often

seem to forget

We are an extension of

your love for us

Our breath is from you

and our life

is pure gift

O God of all Creation

with this breath

we say

“thank you.”

Jody Seymour/2018