Insight
Smoke the hay and watch it burn
Clear as a sunny day I learn
That tomorrow ends today as light
dawns over the horizon, a sight
beheld, but not firmly, so it wisps away
never to be seen again, except on winter days
when the rays refract off the glistening white
and freeze the fire that once burned so bright.
August 17, [...]
Willow
Wasteless thoughts echo the pondering willows
as they blow back, beckoning me to enter in.
Inside their soft arms, they surround
my sides with cool, crisp branches.
Why wallow wondering where the sky begins
when time runs dark before the sun shines?
A bell yells for me to return to diligence.
The clock rolls on, and I remain, out of time
August [...]
