As I journey on

Navigating with the stars

I ask am I lost?

Cloaked in thick darkness

Between the crawling earthworms

Where files go to rest

The blue morning haze

Rises up from sun warmed earth

A new dawn unveiled

The looming mountains

Set alight as Autumn leaves

I am high and dry

Torn in two pieces

Tired brain pulls left and right

This is all I need 

From the moonless sky

Bones glowing in the star light

Beating hearts laid bare

Cloaked in thick shadows

Lonely darkness creeps away

Escaping sunrise

Papery leaves fall

A yellow mask for bare ground

All return to dust

In your hiding place

Between ancient root systems

Burrowing deeper

Words fill every space

Inhabiting different worlds

Lost in the ether

Summer’s green glory

Fades and burns in autumn flames

A beautiful death

Torn clouds slowly leak

Turning summer paths to mire

Which way will we walk?

Crawling like a snail

Carry my house on my back

On the road again

Rodents gather nuts

Stored against the winter months

But how do they know?

Owls swoop overhead

We settle down by the fire

As the years fly by

Cast into fathoms

Floundering to keep afloat

So out of my depth

Leaves cling stubbornly

Despite howling Autumn gales

Gleaning the last rays

Everything I touch

Turns from gleaming burnished gold

To decaying loam

Sun scorched seed heads hang

In the last hot day of fall

Sown by the wolf wind

Out of the darkness

The black forest burning bright

Until cold rain fell

Long yellow grasses

September left us with gifts

Of brambly apple

Inside dark houses

Where secretly spiders crawl

An old floorboard creaks

The chill in the air

Though the sky is clear and blue

Leads summer away