Family History

Before we were who we’ve become, now,

we were, it is surmised, Druids, an ancient

people, iron-age men of legend and lore,

made monsters cannibalizing, sacrificing

others, and practicing magic, a feared people;

and perhaps we were, Druids, spiritual

people, reverent, seeking a closeness

with nature’s world, a shaman’s healing,

fully creative, a creative self, and artful,

curing our infertility of spirit

with the Oak and Mistletoe, and, sages all,

accessing a profound wisdom that sustains us

as it has these centuries of Wings passing onward,

reincarnated souls of Druids and Puritans

and who we’ve become, since.