Reflections of an Autumn Day

by Lianne Schneider

Title

Reflections of an Autumn Day

Artist

Lianne Schneider

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Photograph - Digital Painting/photographic Art

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SEPTEMBER SEASON OF MY HEART

The scarlet, autumn maple knows

what it is to lose everything

of color and beauty,

to let go, not in fear or discontent,

not grudgingly, but

give it up with grace.

To remain firmly upright,

exposed and grayed,

stripped bare by wind, alone to face

the sacred silence of a winter solitude,

to sink her roots in soil enriched

by bits of broken things,

twigs of her own being -

and still stand unbowed

in the humbling humus

of her decomposing clothes.

As I wander in the shadows

cast by barren branches, I sense

my own rough bark - so brittle now -

in this September season of my heart.

But let me embrace like her

the solemn sacrament of waiting,

knowing just as she does

that only this moment is timeless -

the past is sown and harvested, the future

unreal with impossible possibilities.

But today is my forever time -

the paradoxical mystery of the now

though the not yet,

or might not ever be.

Let me trust as she does - patiently -

in my own season of dying and letting go,

trust that new growth arises from

deep beneath this dung covered,

fertilizing soil of little deaths,

while taproots seek below the frost

to reach renewing waters of our spring.


� Lianne Schneider September 2009

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