TRIP TO WINDSOR CASTLE POEM 5

The wind is blowing through trees and with the leaves that fall, Autumn's change is happening. People talk of the winds of change and a fresh breeze blowing through a stagnant environment with little change, as a circumstance or new person arrives. Sometimes people do not anticipate change and so life's inevitable events are shocking to them. Others sometimes anticipate these changes before they occur and so they find that there is little shock, but they never feel settled. Moving with the times and events is usually considered a good thing in our fast paced lives, but there is much to be said for a slow and steady pace, in which case the milestones of life are something very evident to us. Artists often lead this life, even in modern times, to savour the emotions and the events to their full.

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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu

Tremulous

What have we done?

We so similar have found each other,

You cradling me like a child,

As well as loving me like a woman.

An acorn comes from an oak,

Does the age of the oak affect the position

Of the tree full grown? It does not?

And yet we find it meet to be as one.

It was not as I expected we finding

Each other in such a place and time,

As the edge of desperation pushed me fast,

But here we are uniting family to family?

I feel fear and trembling as God devines it,

And this is something I had put aside in childhood,

Not full of ambition for glory or the wealth of men,

But full of love and chastity for God.

Is this our lot – it is by fate alone it seems,

But although it is a distant dream,

Awakened in my childhood slumber,

How this day dream has become reality

Solid and fine I do not know.

All I know for now is that I am yours,

And you are truly mine.

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” J.D. Salinger