The leaves shift and shimmer
at sunlight’s warm caress,
dew sheaths petals and grass blades
like the intimate embrace of a dress.
Breezes whisper through
air’s delicate fingertips,
flowing gently through and over
everything they touch –
stirring all that know them,
they carry with them
the songs of the memories
that move them.
Mischievous winds whistle past
bustling along with a clumsy grace
around the edges of nature;
Noisy and blustering,
never quite touching anything –
sweeping across and away
multitudes of things and beings
in its infinitely tangled paths.
Never about for long,
Briskly brutal admonitions
of life’s fragile fortitude.
We make roots wherever we land
as is nature’s way…
As autumn reminds
life is as a leaf,
its time here brief, yet beautiful –
Unforgotten even as it fades away…
We never are where we stay.
originally written November 4, 2018
