Silent soldiers lying still
After the battle
Soothed
By gentle light
And subtle colour
Fall’s transition
Life retired
The air goes cold
Wafts of change
Await the spring
To be renewed
Like when we’re in Kakadu
And it’s October
Which is fall
Except it’s early spring
Yeah, spring in Australia
I paused. Reflected. Then, “have you ever known something to be true, absolutely true, even though there was no way you could know it to be true, because there was no reason to think it was true? Something you can’t explain to anyone else, even explain to yourself?”
And then
I am able to
Truly see
What could say autumn more
With such spare beauty
And somber solitude?
The leaves turn colours
Unimaginable
Lighting mountainsides on fire
On a beautiful
Fall day
With a light blanketing
Of snow