Hope is Gold
RETREAT IS ESCAPE from the clutches of have-to
Indulgent reward for the business of must-do
The harrowing footsteps down library corridors
Chasing down knowledge from book binds and test scores
Success is revision of many mistakes
So summer the swimming of so many lakes
Retreat is retrieving the bygones and times
Of floating and centering paths in your mind
Whatever may come and whatever is going
Forgetting the wounds of the friends so worth knowing
Become now forever the golden believer
That time is a whisper, a respite, a healer.
Stephanie Platter is a teacher, writer, film critic, and coffee lover who often needs encouragement to take “down time” but cherishes star-gazing and hammock-laying the moment she does.
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