Where Trees Once Stood”

“Where Trees Once Stood”

Darkness lay beside the moon
searching beamlight to consume
nourishment to render a new day
What of nighttime’s left to say
but that it came and that it went
time both busily and idly misspent

Daylight’s pale upon the trees
naked in their vulnerabilities
to careless trespassers cavorting by
What of spirits of the sky
that lie in waiting to possess
all the lights and all the darks
in timelessness

If fire crackles through the wood
and leaves its scent
where trees once stood-
a void of silence left by trail of death
Then with my deepest breath
I’ll breathe the smoke of sleep,
and forever in my dreams
their essence keep

For if in need of perpetuity,
these things not left to memory
born of yellowed dawn
and blackened night-
Then all for nothing moonbeam’s light
that rendered visions of the day
till spirits of the sky stole them away