Has it Been Too Long?
A poem to myself
Has it been too long
since you worked with your hands
in your very own garden?
Since you lifted those tools
and felt muscles harden?
You have been strong
in your writing and reading
but how are you now
at your hoeing and weeding?
Then take up the rake
and those gloves and your spade
And take up the time
before daylight fades.
And may your bones stay
agile and supple,
and may the soil ever
be eager and fertile.
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