In the spring of warm grassy lawns, silver threaded song sparrows high amid the bright lily bowers they fly gold drenched in the morning hours in the deep peace of this sanctuary shelter we are far from the city's maddening swelter here beneath shade trees and roses, we sip tea we float soft as petals, a dream life in these hills smell the ocean rain, blue the way the sky spills we walk scented jasmine trails back home come to rest in each others arms before this resplendent day is gone with nature becoming one connected to all things we are never alone.