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way back

we go way back 11th or 12th century 13th 14th . . . I really don’t know exactly what century maybe it was much earlier

I know it was in the North I remember the feel of it

the flavor of the time and the people

time was different back then

way back in a time completely different than now

thoughts and actions were different and we were a different sort of people back then

primitive by what we expect now when we wake up in the morning

but more sophisticated

in life and living and dying

our living and dying now is primitive by what we expected and lived way back then

the energy strength and unhurried awareness in how we lived and loved walked hunted planted gathered rowed sailed fought and died

this time our lives our doing of what we do are pale and ghostly in comparison

barely existing

a corruption meager living tendrils wisps of courage and truth which half appear and fade

but I remember the strong scent and blood and joy

the courage and sacrifice and love that dared in that time in us in our beginning

when we kiss when I’m inside you and we feel each other

and we remember who we were

and are

I know we go way back

from 2012 — Bill Eberle

September 12, 2012     © 2013, Bill Eberle