Learning to Use a Scythe

-------Learning to Use a Scythe-------

We need not swing heavy,
dear friend.

We have done the peening and now our tool is sharp.

It took the toil, though,

those days at hacking weeds,

to learn the practicality of care.

It's taken the callusing

to soften will enough to see

ourselves manifest in our vocation.

No longer a product of this world but creators along with it,
we share love songs
through the tender choir of our hands.

And in a field
of grasses and wild flowers,

the work
     we live
          comes home.

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