This rhyme was written on Monday 25th April, 2022 and the impulse behind it was a response to reading a newspaper article based on evidence that the life expectancy of women is lower for those living below a certain ‘poverty line’.
I finished it one morning in the New Forest surrounded by the sound of running water, birdsong and the wind. The references to war and poverty, versus the human fragility that acts as a subtle counter-balance to those two stark evils still seem acutely relevant.
These words came to me on Tuesday 19th Dec 2023, after reading a poem by Rumi where he quotes the words of the Koran, ‘We are all returning’.
I found the word, ‘all’, very compassionately inclusive, and the idea that somehow a Higher Power was guiding ‘us’ back to a state of peace and love, visionary and comforting.
“You’ve been asking what your heart, in it’s silence, knows.
Become silent and enter into the heart of knowledge.” Davi Duglas
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