Life Everlasting
Sunlight blinking through fern fronds
Hanging from red clay walls
Water trickling down chute
Falling lyrically into oval pool
Droplets splashing melodically
Into tea colored water
Memories rising like mists
From the depths of time
Children sliding down wet clay, whoosh
Sinking toes into soft moist soil
Feeling squishy mud caress soles of feet
Dank smell of leaves decomposing in liquid
Cool drafts of air breezing across my brow
Sprinkled with body dew in summer swelter
Tangled vines draping across gaping chasm
Sun creeping higher into morning blue sky
Crow cawing high in treetops
Lazy frog plodding across wet leaves
Decades sliding by in surreal procession
Incipient awareness of my aging body
Lost years of solitude
Endless parade of shattered dreams
Acknowledged and then let go of
Familiar faces grown hazy in the minds eye
Many long gone from this earthly realm
Opiate of woodland serenity
Lulling me into reverie
Sun penetrating skin with soothing heat
My face illumined in golden afterglow
Of happy memories
Bliss of love recalled bringing soft smile
Ageless beauty of ancient rhythms of
nature
Surrounding me in timeless magic
Gnarled roots of trees
Intertwining with each other
In exquisite nature tapestry
Vision of hope
In this afternoon of my life
