What We Need is Here

Charlotte Matthews, "Over the Cuckmere"

What We Need Is Here

Geese appear high over us,

pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,

as in love or sleep, holds 

them to their way, clear

in the ancient faith: what we need

is here. And we pray, not

for new earth or heaven, but to be

quiet in heart, and in eye,

clear. What we need is here.

Wendell Berry

Still pondering on this. Abandon. Is that another way to say surrender? And yet "abandon" seems more like letting the weights go, as in a sense of freedom (rather than defeat). Abandon to trust, to an ancient faith - this will hold us to our way? I have to do some more thinking.