MANY WINTERS by Nancy Wood
If I had known before, all the things I know today,
I would have begun my life as an old woman.
Tricked by old men telling me there was nothing to fear
Except leaving my youth behind.
What would have been the fun of that?
What home would my mistakes have had?
It is better this way.
Now I can wish for my youth to come back.
Just so I can tell it, how old age is nothing buy
Remembering how rich the green fields looked
Despite the lack of rain.
All is a circle within me. I am ten thousand winters old. I am as young as a newborn flower.
I am a tree in bloom.
All is a circle within me.
I have seen the world through an eagle’s eye. I have seen it from a gopher’s hole.
I have seen the world on fire and the sky without a moon.
All is a circle within me.
I have gone into the earth and out again. I have gone to the edge of the sky.
Now all is at peace within me. Now all has a place to come home. (Nancy Wood)
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