Dispatches for the Colonial Office: I Hadn't Realized How Young We Are

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Lawrence Hall

I Hadn’t Realized How Young We Are

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

-Mary Oliver, "Sometimes"

I hadn’t realized how young we are

As through this field we stroll, your hand in mine

But love has seen us safely through this far

With hearts in time with each other, with eyes that shine

We were young once, and how wonderful to be

Still young in the promises we made

And in our long togetherness thus free

To love as one in this moonlit summer glade

As through this field we stroll, beneath the evening star

I realize how wonderfully young we are

Dispatches for the Colonial Office