Chanel Number 'Alive'

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. - Thoreau

riding along on my bike yesterday

all of sudden as i passed by a certain house

was hit with the most beautiful fragrance

as if someone had spritzed a sea of perfume

causing me to take a breath as deep as the ocean

don't think i've ever breathed the scent of anything greater

surely, i thought to myself, you have to save some of this for later

can't imagine what was blooming in that yard

as for but a fleeting moment i dared to let down my guard

brought a smile to my face

made me feel glad to be alive

i'll have to go and sniff it out today

on the bicycle of my life, as i strive

and to think,

all that without having to go to paris for a bottle of chanel no. five

Author's Note

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself." - Thoreau