A Fading Light

 

Woven furrows of tufted grass

enshrines a natures past

From battlements and lofty spires 

to a ravenous squirrel aloft

Memories layered one upon another

autumns to cover the summer

Capricious skies and radiant moons

the mists of dawn to sit and stay

Solitary figures each a history

in dwellings of ancient stone

A gaunt tree of autumnal fright

a halloween pumpkin of evil delight

A pervasive silence of proven sound

dim lights glowing in distant towns

To hibernate and sleep to dream of light

on beds of heavy down to slumber

Subdued, deadened and hidden away

a requiem is played on frosty pastures

Drifts of time repeat their story

as time is given to store anew