Emeralds - Julie Byrne

Of all the needs

There are none

There are none which are imagined

Of all the fires that ever burned

It was all the that I did learn

Have you forgotten what we were like then?

When the day came fat with an apple in its mouth

It is no use to worry about time

We know the length that we have lived

All the pastures and the ice and water

And the high roads that I have come to know

I would not want to be faster or greener than now

You were, you were the best of

The best of all my days