Patterns of Time
by Lori Anderson
Patterns of time.
Survivors & descendants
of survivors. Patterns.
Pandemics & problems,
People can survive,
People do survive.
War Poster from Witherby & Co. Photo from Wikimedia.
Patterns of time.
Survivors & descendants
of survivors. Patterns.
Pandemics & problems,
People can survive,
People do survive.
Patterns. From a small seed to a full, swirling pattern. Repeating, repeating. Giving birth to new patterns. Falling to give way to time.
The leaves fall and the shadows deepen. Time swirls. Ebbing, flowing patterns.The rising and setting of the sun and moon. Fall draws us on to the cold winter.
The cold, hard winter. Empty, frozen patterns. Invisible patterns. Patterns that choke, that try to kill the hope lying dormant under the snow.
Hope dares. Winter screams. Spring hides under the bleakness. Hope remains unseen until — Spring grows brave, strengthened by the rising sun.
The sun shines bright. Patterns grow. Descendants of patterns reach towards the sun. Patterns ripen. Beautiful and bright, patterns of time swirl on.
