I am a circle 

Circling around myself

Enclosed in a larger circle

Called my family

My family circle is enclosed

In a larger circle called a national circle.

My national circle is inside a larger circle

Called a humanity circle that includes hundreds of other national circles .

That humanity circle is yet but one circle inside something we call the Earth.

The Earth circle contains so many more circles than just the human circle but we constantly forgetting that. 

I am a circle

Circling around and inside myself

Circling though time, friends, family 

Circling through changes of seasons

Sometimes attempting to circle around 

Problems, people and dangers.

Sometimes attempting to circle into

people, possibilities and love.

I wasn’t aware of the centrality of circles

Before the American Indian taught me.

Thought everything was a straight line

From me to the future

And a straight line back through me to the past.

Nope, it was about circles not straight lines

Circles that have expanded and contracted through my long life.

Circles have come and gone… school circles, work circles, community circles, love circles. Some have come full circle, arriving back at the start again.

Those have been the best, cause everything lies “ahead”again..