When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Just this morning I left early for work so I could walk through the Coves, and see the frost on the reeds and grasses. What a wonderful image and accompanying poem.
So glad that you shared, HWT!
Such a great poem.
I just loved that.