Nature mourns the passing of the year,
when tears of leaves carpet the ground
and burn with transcendent colours
into rainbow clouds.
Is all waste, all loss, all careless of the
future now destroyed? Not so, this
blaze of bright, recycled joy, feeds
the new life coming.
Take healing from the mourning earth
that holds our hearts in love’s great
loss, and speaks through the leaves’
tears our peace.
October 2020