WORK WITH LOVE

(A Sonnet on a Busy Morning)

Around our neighborhood, I hear the sounds

of hammers, of equipment being moved, of saws

and shovels. Music of hard work surrounds

our home, and makes me smile because

my neighbors love to do good work. They toil

because they want to make life better than

it was, to get things clean, to turn the soil

so life will grow anew. They have a plan

to polish up their place until it glows

and helps the neighborhood to glow as well.

Their work is made of simple love. It shows

that goodness always will excel

in our good world. These sounds of happiness

I hear are proofs that work with love can bless.