You Are In Your Wilderness Again

 You are in your wilderness again

Among the Daisies and silver Birch trees

The grass thin in the warm summer 

Mosquitoes buzzing, cows slapping tails

The water shimmering.

I am home here

The baby crying

The piano singing

And little voices a humming away

A cacophony of sorts

I am needed

Desperately

Momma momma mommy

I see Roses out my window

The corn across the way stretching up

And think thoughts that don't amount to much

I wish I was more

While you cook over an open fire

And talk and sleep

You sleep under bright stars

I soothe tears at night

Night after night I soothe tears

Catching them

I read stories

Fold clothes

Tuck in little ones

And our lives

They seem to vastly different

And on some dark starless loud nights

I catch my own tears

And you sleep

In your wilderness

Again

~ Tansy