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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Thu Apr 20, 2023, 08:59 PM Apr 2023

You may pace in desperation , fretting and wondering aloud "What to do?" and finding no avenue

of deliverance or escape, leave your carpeted cocoon to walk---somewhere.

And, if you are very fortunate, after a time, may find your senses being gently soothed by a forgotten balm.

Your walk on layers of leaf mold layed down over uncounted years by the oaks and hickories whose towering spires form the cathedral you've entered and you are stunned how delicious is the earthy aroma stirred by your steps.

You can taste the very air you share with fox squirrels and downy woodpeckers and fiddlehead ferns.

Your quiet peaceful joy is grounded in the awareness that you have reconnected with things ancient and sacred.

You fold the sights, smells and sounds into your self and, turning back to the cell you'd fled, vow to remember them and accept their healing.

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You may pace in desperation , fretting and wondering aloud "What to do?" and finding no avenue (Original Post) Atticus Apr 2023 OP
That is lovely, my dear Atticus . . . CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2023 #1
That's lovely!!! Someone recently posted a poem, published I guess, with a similar theme. They Karadeniz Apr 2023 #2

Karadeniz

(23,359 posts)
2. That's lovely!!! Someone recently posted a poem, published I guess, with a similar theme. They
Thu Apr 20, 2023, 09:46 PM
Apr 2023

are both wonderful.

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