Medieval Livelihood

 

It is a cold day

I like it

I’m not in an ice age

Not yet, anyway

Nor am I in exhile

Nor a refugee

From plague, war, or other

Vile happenstance

 

If I were,

If I had a family and a people

Now cleft,

Home destroyed

All scattered

All I might love

 

Then I might compose

As a different sort of wanderer

 

If I lived ten centuries ago

Or in one of many places

On the Earth just now

 

C L Couch

 

 

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