Sunlight and shadow

Questions without an answer

Empty and hollow

Though you are older

You will see more years than I

Mine simply fly by

Half a silver moon

Hanging in the cinder gloom

Falling back down soon

Day silently breaks

The surface of the duck pond

Set your sights beyond

Where earth and sky meet

A hazy gloom descending

Spectres rising up

Square words in round ears

I cannot navigate this

Mutable cloud maze

Kindle another flame

Catch the corner, watch it grow

Fire drives away dark

Sunlight still filters

Through these dusty old windows

I keep them open

Remake the rainbow

Reimagine refraction

Reform and reborn

Swim against the stream

Keep walking the winding road

Plough your own furrow

Huddle up against

The wind, the sleet and the snow

Stronger together

Leaf strata compose

An ever growing cover

For our longest sleep

Darkness lies below

When it enters in our eyes

Where does the light go?

With the burning sky

We beat a familiar path

To forge new memories

Glowing in cold skies

Our silent silver sister

Always out of reach

As each year passes

I lose more of my branches

And turn to ashes

If I could leave these

Cold grey winter days behind

I’d start to miss them