Posts tagged nature

Even the sounds echo coldly.

In the wind you hear the yelling

of children at play, with large

sweaters enveloping their frames.

Yellow foliage dance on the wind,

and bounce from their wooden castles

down into merky autumn puddles and streams.

Their only hope is to accent summer’s dying

green.

Outside a dog barks, and apples grow bright.

Inside we take shelter, and our world stands still.

You can hear them talking.
In hushed voices,
Almost a whisper,
And then, softer.

Preparing to make that leap.
Ready for that performance,
One last act of beauty,
And then, decay.

I’ve seen the ritual.
Every year it happens,
The season of dying,
And then, Winter.

I want to be in touch with the world,
to hear the mountains and the oceans
speak,
to see the winking of stars and the sun
smiling.
I want to feel the arms of trees wrapped 
around me like a blanket,
and the clouds beneath my head when I sleep.
There are few things I have wanted in my
lifetime,
and now that I have reached this age,
I wish to feel them all at once,
flooding my senses,
so I can die at once,
peacefully, happily, and in love.