Maybe

Maybe it really does take years.  I counsel clients about this all the time.  Why should it not refer to me as well?  I am making my list of what I can do now, and offering it up.

Maybe I needed a year

For every four or five years 

To recapture the pieces

That are really mine.

Maybe I needed these six years

Of school

Of trainings

Of seizures

Of sitting in the pew in front,

Now further back;

A year of serving

The Clinic;

Six months

At the Halfway House;

Six years scanning the horizon

For what is most likely buried

In my own back yard,

Under the crab apple.

Maybe I needed these six years

To determine the pieces

That fit.