Wild Geese

Meg Hutchinson

Somewhere north of Hope



You have been camped out



With your discontent



Guarding your coins of tenderness



Watching the wild geese



Cutting through the Autumn breeze



Seems there's no question for them



Of where to go, Or how to be free







Who will you fly South with



when the winter comes



How will you trust your direction or your



need to leave, to love, to leave, to love?



'Cause it's a long flight to where it's warm



'Cross the canvas of sky -



Through the bottoms of this song



Why aren't we born like the wild geese



Knowing our way home?







I feel it in your eyes



In the September wind



While the cold front,



threatens to move in



Under the silver skies



Over the golden leaves



We look behind us



but there is no one else to lead



We spend our days confused



Oh, trying not to lose



Through the layers of abstraction



That, thin line of blue



Trying to be strong



Still, but wishing to move on



Meanwhile inside us,



the wild geese are taking form