Welcome Morning

From Welcome Morning by Anne Sexton:

So while I think of it

let me paint a thank you on my palm

for this God, this laughter in the morning,l

lest it go unspoken.

The Joy that isn’t shared, I’ve heard,

dies young.

The whole  poem can be found at:

https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2013%252F06%252F22.html