"Morning"

From the East comes the sun,

Bringing a new and unspoiled day.

It has already circled the Earth and

Looked upon distant lands and

Far-away peoples.

It has passed over mountain ranges and

The waters of the seven seas.

It has shown upon laborers in the fields,

Into the windows of homes,

And shops, and factories.

It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,

And also the hovels of the poor.

It has been witness to both good and evil,

The works of honest men and women and

The conspiracy of knaves.

It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages

And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday."

Now, unsullied from its tireless journey,

It comes to us,

Messenger of the morning.

Harbinger of a new day.

~ Clinton Lee Scott