Quotes

Full Circle (Part 1)

When the circle is complete again,
the Goddess shines her face upon the world.
Now we cannot cower in the shadows,
we feel her gaze upon us, fixed, immutable,
except within the patterns that we see.

We think we know her schedule; everything
dictated by the movements of the sky,
predictable and regular.

We do not know the storms and traumas,
that have shaped her;
the crashing rocks, the raging solar winds,
the birth and death of stars,
the aeons passed,
and all those yet to come.
We only see her scars,
and think her now at peace.

Yet we who measure time on different scales
arrive and leave like mayflies, dancing
on a summer’s day,
and think our lives important.

Linda Rushby 27 April 2021