There is a beauty that comes from walking a clover laden field, or a path in the woods and feeling the autumn breeze and smelling the wildflowers. You are so alive. There is an aching pain as sharp and vivid as the beauty, some knowledge in the fiber of your spirit, that you won't hold it forever.
Death walks with you silently. It bides the times...so patient.
You are aware, so keen to the fact that if you could consume the beauty, the honeysuckle, clover and brilliant orange and pink of the sunset, you might put death off for a while. You do it in the heartbeat of your sweet green youth, and you keep walking, eyes wide open.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsFfqF7Cuhc Here is a link to my you tube channel where I read from my recently published books, Sleep Always Calls, It's Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump to the Madhouse and Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems. They are all available on Amazon