People moving forward,
People moving backwards.
Seasons changing,
Eternal spring then summer,
Autumn heralding winter’s cold.
Patterns of time
A mosaic coalescing,
Lives intertwining.
Birth and funeral,
Together,
Then christening and death.
Woman bizarre and martyr,
Is it hope only?
It is love, forever,
It is life.
Read it backwards.
Backwards it read.
Life is it,
Forever, love is it?
Only hope it is,
Martyr and bizarre woman.
Death and christening then,
Together,
Funeral and birth.
Intertwining lives,
Coalescing mosaic
A time of patterns.
Cold winter’s heralding autumn,
Summer then spring eternal,
Changing seasons.
Backwards moving people,
Forward moving people.
NiC Roworth -18th June, 1997