Take It All –

                                        Timelife has flown

                                        And with it my pattering feet

                                        Each baby curl of hair

                                        Whisped into the stiff breeze

                                        A blob of angry Beethoven

                                        Happy Boy!

 

                                        Golden rage departed

                                        Awe – cooled and dampened

                                        Resident of conjecture

                                        Insight and power believed

                                        Emerging Spirit!

 

                                        And in moments between

                                        Awakening and now

                                        Aspirations and cliff-falls

                                        Hooey and crux

                                        Bewilderment and peace

 

                                        On a sparrow's flight

                                        The next day depends

                                        By a slight smile

                                        Dawn breaks

                                        Take it all –