At once in a fury

At once in a fury

Then days fell like feathers 

Soft until layers formed

Furthered the togethers

Not again, not at all

Gray rocks are forming dams

No satellite orbit

Happiness in the am’s

Crying watercolors

Crying watercolors

But feeling dark oil paints

Wyeth washes outside

While Rembrandt in restraints

Tomorrow’s storm coming

Umbrellas inside out

Visibly more muted

Internally undoubt 

Right from the very start

Right from the very start

Cradle me, your baby

The love I gave but I

Was born an injury

Handed off to siblings

Failing draft after draft

Feeling that I was wrong

Because I could not graft

Here at the start of now

Here at the start of now

New beginnings waiting 

The birth of a comet

Or bright star creating

Or just a passing cloud

Or passerby smiling

The same children questions

The age old ones piling

Enlightenment waning

Enlightenment waning

Depth replaced with distance

Sliding on the surface

Path of no resistance 

Curiosity ask

Determination seek

There’s micro to macro 

And redesign to tweak

In the moment scratch spin

In the moment scratch spin 

Gravity always here

Canada geese flying

Heading south on the sphere

In breathtaking autumn

Fireworks of maple trees

Here together forward

Facing the cooler breeze

All the things we love will

All the things we love will

No matter how tightly

Markers mostly matchsticks

Expiring though brightly 

And no matter the care

Or love leaps and bounding

The skirt of apathy

Folds in as it’s rounding