A Path in the Woods

...I still want to remain faithful
to my first astonishments
to recognize as wisdom the child’s wonder
and to carry in myself until the end a path
in the woods of my childhood
dappled with patches of sunlight
to search for it everywhere
in museums in the shades of churches
this path on which I ran unaware
a six-year old...

~Excerpt from A Path in the Woods by Anna Kamienska