Wilderness Wanderer

The wilds of the earth sing of acceptance freedom resounds in your wandering

The rarity of your musk speak of raw soil mixed with animal scents

Hunting fishing cutting deer salmon and caribou your past time second nature to none

Counting bird flocks finding nests and knowing the wingspan of snow geese

To know kinds species and types preciously filed in your mind to order and retrieve

The shape of hawk’s tail the span of a cormorant’s wing secrets known to you

Keeping remembering categorizing artifacts in drawers for safekeeping for teaching

Buried in a tremendous deep well courageously battling purgative days you cast a line out

The heavens hear you they agree with your plan of recovery through common sense living

To finish the race well to complete a final quest to find salvation you roar

I witness to your lion’s heart walk by your side across the savannah into the smiling sunset