Say Yes! Yes! Yes! to Life

Poets United's Thursday Think Tank prompt today is "Yes."
I didn't have to look far for inspiration! This is my son's mantra.

"Say Yes! Yes! Yes! to Life!"
my son proclaims
to almost everyone he meets
at bus stops,
along the city sidewalks,
in the hospital
where he goes for chemo.

This same son has traveled
a dark and perilous passage,
in his mind,
for twenty years,
recently emerging
as the being of joy
he was always destined
to be.

Like me,he has gratitude
for the little things:
a small potted plant,
clouds on the hills,
the color of the sky.

Turns out, they are not
little things at all,
but very big things.

When one sees the wonder
in the smallest buttercup
growing in some unlikely terrain,
one has found the secret
of happiness
forever.