A Sunny Disposition Poem by Mark Heathcote

Here's a lady with a sunny disposition
getting on my morning bus mid-winter
with a straight rainbow umbrella
and she's also a frontline care worker
an inspiration, I guess to many around her.

Yes, here's a lady with a sunny disposition
She's got on a radiant smile of pure gold
and her voice is a honeyed dawn chorus
Answering her phone - confirming a shift
Chirpy as a songbird, joyous as-can be.

And here's me seated alone, feeling depleted.
Moments from work, trying hard to find
my own straight rainbow umbrella starburst
my own inner strength, radiant smile
To deliver what I sense she has always to offer.

Sure, with a shrug of the shoulders.
I feel the rain has now finally ever so slightly lifted.
More heavy showers will inevitably come.
But the pandemic has now been downgraded.
So I disembark with a sign, the future will be just fine.