The Wilderness

Into the forest I walk,

Time nearly standing still.

I remember the battles

That were fought

In my woods,

So long ago.

My meadow was a means 

To an end,

As I see it all played out,

When men in Grey and Blue

Collide,

In a battle fought years ago.

I see this all so clearly,

As it happened before my eyes,

I see the blow that fate

Has given me,

A time to make a retreat

As fires came and swallowed up

Everything but me.

So, I tell my tale of the vision

I saw,

Of an epic battle still fought,

When deep inside I can still

Hear his voice tell me to

"Go and tell the world".

As I daydream in my meadow,

With a book clasp to my breast,

I realize that the love I have is still there.

And, as I bury that book,

That I wrote 40 years ago,

I realize that its my time to go..

Into peace forevermore.

-Jessica A (Clements) Navarro (8/22/12)