Trees, in fog

Sunlight fading,

late afternoon,

twilight time,

thick woods, cold,

growing colder, path

forgotten, lost,

stepping into fog, light

then thickening, smells

wet, decay, rot, new

growth, muffled sounds,

then amplified, muffled,

then loud, near, then

silence, deafening:

life.

This poem was inspired by a discussion of the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.

Photograph by Wallpaperscraft.