My footsoles feel the cooling earth,
My face the warming sun.
Not since the morning of my birth
Have I been so at one.
That moment was a watershed:
No sooner was I born
Than people sought to fill my head
With loads of corn – pure corn.
My parents told me, “Walk this way,”
My teachers, “Scale the heights.”
It’s taken me until today
To put my world to rights.
Now, standing barefoot in a wood,
I’m back in with the highest good.
Photo by Hannah Skelly on Unsplash
