Page 4 - The Infinite Significance of Trees

Autumnal Reflection

I.
the still air thickens
then somewhere beyond sound
it thins

silence merges with light
creating a blue arc
far above deciduous trees
whose golden multitudes
fall effortlessly

scattered light gleams
momentarily
but soon loss mingles
with weighty matter, and
we step heavily upon memory
extinguishing glory

II.
seduced by reflective light
the fallen ride breath into human form

essentially amorphous, they balk at limitation
and their discomfort is our disease

III.
in the divine economy
where leaves equal fallen angels

there is the enduring significance of trees
the challenge
to doubt, to trust
to rebel or be
reborn