Coyote and the New Day

Coyote and I were sent out to wake up the Sunshine and start a new day.

Coyote kept yelping, "I’m too tired. You do it. I’m too tired. You do it. I want to sleep."

I told him, "One of us has to put the Stars and Moon to sleep.

The other has to wake the birds and the sunshine."

Coyote whined that he knew what had to be done better than I did.

He told me he would sing to the Stars and Moon

until they drifted off to sleep

with his special lullaby howl song.

I went to wake the sunshine.

I prayed to the Creator to bring forth a new day.

I felt the soft breeze gently hit my face, like a fresh breath of green.

The birds then started piping out their song,

announcing to everything that a new day had come.

It was then that I realized

I had not heard Coyote sing his lullaby howl song

to put the Stars and the Moon to sleep.

I looked up

and the Stars and the Moon were hanging in the sky like a Hawk in the wind.

This couldn’t be because the Sunshine had started a new day.

I found Coyote asleep like a stone in the sunshine.

So every time you see the Stars and the Moon still hanging in the sky,

even after the Sunshine has lit the flame of a new day,

you will know Coyote has fallen asleep

and not sung his lullaby howl song to the Stars and the Moon.

Autumn Leaves