Louise Glück – Dec 2, Iyengar II & I

From our current US Poet Laureate, is this a little dark? Maybe more than a little? But, the end is so important. If you have lost hope, or maybe are just a little blue, go back to where you lost hope and look for it. Do something that brings you joy this weekend, or reminds you of childhood, or is a little silly!

A CHILDREN'S STORY

Tired of rural life, the king and queen

return to the city, all the little princesses

rattling in the back of the car, singing the song of being:

I am, you are, he, she, it is —

But there will be no conjugation in the car, oh no.

Who can speak of the future? Nobody knows anything about the future,

even the planets do not know.

But the princesses will have to live in it.

What a sad day the day has become.

Outside the car, the cows and pastures are drifting away;

they look calm, but calm is not the truth.

Despair is the truth. This is what

mother and father know. All hope is lost.

We must return to where it was lost

if we want to find it again.