Rooster Crowing

Something quite refreshing in

This restless reveille;

Again, and then again until

All quarters are aware.

There are those who are annoyed by

This constant caterwauling,

While others sleep right through it

Dreaming castles in the air.

 

And I am somewhere in between

When he embarks his aria

Counting up to twenty for

His mantra to replay,

Knowing that the morning dew

Is forming on the meadows

Welcoming the dawning of

A shimmering new day.

 

Fortune shines a million suns

On those who stretch and yawn

Prepared to greet the new day

When the rooster crows at dawn.

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