Alone in the Wood

A poem of love

Alone in the woods,
Hearing you
Thinking thoughts of blue
Missing the nature of who

We once were
Interconnectedness ensured.
The birds sing
The squirrels swirl
There’s a wood pecker...
Hammering out life’s whirl.

I’m resting here
With the fish in the pond
Wanting, wishing
To move on

Tomorrow comes still
With its harshness and natural will
Rest now my son
Before you climb that hill

Yesterday remains a sorrow
Mistakes and death on the forest floor
Deep in the marrow
My bones ache the lovers song

And yet new life is born out of each decay
Showing us the truth of all nature’s way

I’m just a man with two legs to walk this earth
Only here to share her rebirth
And create the joy we do sorely miss,
In the absence of a tender kiss

Like the bubbles of a soft drink
My thoughts rise
Sunlight shining through the trees
The dance of the leaves

Nature is the emotion
Our feelings are the dance
We experience it most in human romance.

TRWJ 5/19

Reviews

[B]

I love how you made loss .... romantic
How a man can rest in despair of loss of love..... he somehow sinks into a background
One with nature and its ever fleeting cycles
a rebirth
on so many levels

Waw!