Why I Knit- A Sonnet

When I knit time stands still.
I sit in a world of the past living in the now.
A world where things move slower
and with less about which to worry.

When I knit I have no demands to fulfill-
No questions to answer: where, when, or how?
A world with a woman’s grandchild below her,
and nothing for which to be sorry.

When I knit I have no burdens, no fears, no bills-
No decisions to make, no future to endow.
In a world where all doubt will cower
and in which nothing makes me wary.

And so I sit.
And so I knit.

Witnessing the Day

In lavender waves of mercy,
facing the sky I lay.
Embedded in leaves of greatness,
to witness the break of day.
In cerulean clouds of darkness,
I stand with arms outstretched.
I sit in the midst of night time,
to see the death of day.