Nature's Cycle
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
There is something magical about the changing of seasons…often
through inordinate ways.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Nature’s Cycle
by Odin Roark
Red wagon wheels in the snow
awaiting warmer interval
knows time will invite
surroundings to relax,
unlock its frozen shackles,
freeing movement again.
How easily we fault these cyclic forces,
nature’s mere managing chronology,
creating allowance,
choice,
necessity,
faith,
awe.
Like circular motion that is endless,
existence in perpetuity accepts no end.
You,
me, wagon wheels,
water,
rocks,
all merely its flux.
Control is not ours.
Like our blood flow,
Nature’s momentum
will be where it needs to be,
do what it needs to do,
in this ever changing infinity
we are but students of.
Unfortunately…
Man invented the invisible prison,
the “we ae the chosen ones,”
a delusional security blanket,
an anomaly only servile to ignorance
that adopts,
clings to,
and finally succumbs to more ignorance.
In Goliath’s world,
such clouded ideas
ignores spring thaws,
when frozen wagon wheels
embrace liberation,
await innocence
not yet fully secured.
Shortly will come
a child’s joyful discovery,
a gently tugging loose
of Winters hesitant release,
rails accepting movement needed relieve rest,
but only for a little while.
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Love ya!
Jane
But your poem is not about how we learned a good lesson in preservation and conservation that has lasted our entire lives, but about how our lives are controlled by great forces that freeze us out and then release us as pawns in the greater "Goliath" world.
I would venture to say that that little act of self-reliance and self-restraint that we saw many other kids, and their parents fail to display, gave us a certain edge when it came to dealing with the upcoming Goliaths that befell us like his bout with the debilitating pneumonia at 16 and then, cellulitis at 20 and my paralysis by scalpel at 20.
The fact that that wagon was rust free and able to be either sold by my mother or shared with less fortunate kids after we outgrew it, led to our both taking on a life very well with him retiring well and able to handle his wife's sudden and accidental death and my ability to still take care of myself by hiring others in my retirement instead of becoming a ward of the state.
Ron