I see the varying yellows and reds of leaves dancing to the ground after a slight wind I see bluejays, cardinals and robins jockeying for position on the birdfeeder's step I see deer walk across the field as I peer from the kitchen window they seem at home in their freedom I see the distant mountaintops fading as the Sun yields to the approaching night I see the emerging stars and the glow of the moon as it begins it's nightly watch then I see you secure in the maple frame I gaze endless until the call of sleep awakens me my home is wrapped in beauty but all the beauty I see begins in this frame in this face so far away