Arrow of Time

The snow came rude and early

That year, our paths met

Winter brushed off Autumn's plea

To share just one sunset

In the wave-like hills of the Catskills

The grey rolls on for miles

An endless sea of leafless trees

Are perched on God's snow piles

OOOooooOOOoooo

The valley floor, ancient and adorned

By the ice bound flowing tide

A ruthless procession, the rivers' direction

One way, like the Arrow of Time

Ghostly barns of antiquity

Decayed heaps of an age long passed

A rotting mass of a lifetimes work

Softly whisper, "nothing lasts"

OOOooooOOOoooo

Painted leaves can't un-fall

Can't float up to greet the limb

For once they sever it is forever

And they return to the soil again

Do the leaves sadly remember the trees?

Just as I remember you

Or embrace such a fate, not a second to wait

To start this life anew.

OOOooooOOOoooo