See What Has Been Wrought

See What Has Been Wrought

Farm

What is a farm?

I mean the old

family farm . . .

If I knew I’d share it with you,

so taken am I

with the original idea.

                        But that doesn’t seem

to work anymore.

Don’t get me wrong,

the farm has rumblings—

the underside of thunder

that jostles from the innards

of the current survivors.

                        The hours they work

in acceptance of fears

bring a pittance

for their efforts

only because the

property they’ve owned

for so long brings

an owner’s return.

                        But it won’t last.

Here’s the story:

Love that farmer’s daughter,

smart at school,

gone for honors

at the university.

She’ll be a senator

some day—

corrupt and hapless

as that may seem.

She’ll appear

and work and do

and inspire the next,

planting seeds that take root.

To Ponder

            1.   Ways of life pass by and are gone. Their absence is more

                  than memories of youth that have thinned out.

            2.   They’re really gone, not to be repeated, no longer

                  serviceable to new tastes and ambitions.

            3.   What has gone that you remember warmly is still part of

                  you and helped make you.

            4.   There’s a rightful place in life for regret, not a clinging, but

                  appreciation for past value.

            5.   Typically, we move through these passages without much

                  difficulty, or even thinking about them.

            6.   Then looking back, the true lesson is seeing the gift in the

                  evolving landscape; how we have grown by what’s been

                  sacrificed.

            7.   What green shoots have made their appearance? What

                  have we planted that we’d overlooked?

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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