The Wheel

I bet you didn’t know that the sun took a shine to water

She drinks up a bit, floats it up to the sky

Now what she takes from our lake

Will make her a storm cloud that rumbles and tumbles rain

From up high, high, high

It’s a wheel, Winnie

This journey of ours

Sun to lake to cloud that showers rain back to the lake below

And you’ll ride that wheel wherever you go

Not a minute or moment is the same

The wheel keeps you guessing

And everything around you is along for the ride

The pond, the bullfrogs, the birch trees, and hound dogs

Plus people, all people ebb and flow

With the tide, tide, tide

It’s a wheel, Winnie

A ripple in water

Girl to wife to mother to daughter

Like all you kinfolk

Come and gone

Can’t stop rowing, rowing, changing, and moving on

Once you drop an anchor, the boat gets stuck

And it would stay forever

Just floating on top

Watching life pass it by

Just floating on top

Show me how to climb back on the wheel

I’ll be there slick as a slingshot

Prepared to get off at the end

And share with someone my spot

You can’t have living without dying

So you can’t call this living what we got

We just are

We just be

No before

No beyond

A rowboat anchored in the middle of a pond

Don't be afraid of death, Winnie

Be afraid of not being truly alive

You don't need to live forever

You just need to live

Do you understand?

It’s a wheel

It’s a wheel Winnie

A ripple in water

Girl to wife to mother to daughter

Like all you kinfolk

Come and gone

It’s a wheel

Winnie

A circle in motion

Can’t stop rowing, growing, changing, then moving on

Can’t stop rowing, growing, changing, then moving on