Now and Then

I look back on my Village days

so filled with life -- the many ways

we used to revel! Swords of light

arrayed against the dark of night.


Yes, we were quite another kind:

bright Knights and Ladies of the mind.

Bring on the World! Its equal, we

would conquer all that we could see.


But now my world’s grown rather thin.

I rest. I take my medicine

when it is time. My Lady sits

across the room. She hums. She knits.