Thirty More Years

Wendell Berry | July/August 2023 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 7)
When I was a young man,
grown up at last, how large
I seemed to myself! I was a tree,
tall already, and what I had not
yet reached, I would yet grow
to reach. Now, thirty more years
added on, I have reached much
I did not expect, in a direction
unexpected. I am growing downward,
smaller, one among the grasses.
~ Wendell Berry, "Thirty More Years" in ENTRIES