T-i-m-e, Life Forces

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An old saying insists that, ‘It’s ‘a man’s world.’ Maybe that’s true, maybe not, for there is another that suggests, ‘Behind every great man is a great woman’. As for how we define 'great' I suspect it has to do with goodness; if goodness is as great as any of us can aspire to, not all greatness is synonymous with goodness.

Whatever, we live in a world for which I suspect we have mostly women - past, present, and future - to thank for its (and our) ever aspiring to a kinder world and common humanity, all the better for its feminine side looking beyond the Here-and-Now to host such peace and love as all the best dreams are made of, including one called Progress...

T-I-M-E, LIFE FORCES

Seasons come and go, Hope,

nurturing root-leaf-flower of its thought 

in a garden of peace and love

Earth Mother, complementing

time's healing touch in a thousand ways

while its seasons come and go

Nature, human nature, playing host

to all living things, its ghosts left sighing
over every missed heartbeat

Human arts and sciences lending 

a sense of shared responsibility in caring

for a each and every one of us  

Seasons come and go, World asking
of nature-cum-human nature its sacrifices

for a kinder, unprejudiced ethos

As life forms put through their paces,
nature and human nature invariably at odds,

find a woman called Hope regenerating
dream-gardens of peace and love

Copyright R. N. Taber 2013;2020 

[Note: A slightly different version of this poem first appeared on the blog in 2013.] RNT