Joy

Joy is so fleeting
an emotion,
yet so wonderous to behold-
a spark in damp shadowy corners,
a candle of hope in cold frosty dungeons.

How lovely that sun-born
blossom, that buds in the spring,
that soft caressing nurture
of the gently blowing wind.

It is the tinkling of that splashing stream,
that burst of feathers as the hummingbird leaps-
that Joy in Nature,
is something so precious and free.