Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Jul 10, 2009

Dawn Breaks

Dawn Breaks
Another day
What does it mean
What is it for
One more chance
To find a hope
One more dawn
Another day

A bird sings
Just out of view
Simple song of joy
By a simple being
One that can experience
Life without care
And share that song
From just out of view

Simple meant
To feed the limbs
One less worry
For troubled soul
Strength to carry on
At least in flesh
But not for mind
Only weary limbs

One more day
Down paths endless
Treading on in the dark
Unlit by the day
But one more trip
Without destination
One more day
Down endless paths

Dawn breaks
Another day



G - July 2009
Posted by Gooseman at 12:29 PM

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