The colour of soil and pebble

Tree and rock

Boulders in the shade

Falling just the same way

As elsewhere I’ve seen

Landscape passing through

recalling a scene or view

Found hundreds of miles away

And people are like that too

Mannerisms

A flash of a smile

And the ghost of someone I once knew

Walks by in another persons skin

Shape of shoulder

Slopes down mountain side

A hawk circles high

The shadow of a cloud

Drifting

Moment in time feels like a month

Or perhaps just one day

24 hours

Momentum wearying

Tearing

Inside I’m breaking down

Caterpillar cocoon snaking

Winding arms around

Patterns sloughed off

Bones snapping

Brain mapping

I’m becoming anew

Renewed

Rewired

Differently

Watching others around me switch

And the way we relate shift

The further along we go

Careful

Clinging to balance

With white knuckles

But damn it!

never careful enough

There is a fire in my periphery

And even though I watch it intensely

Still

It burns me down

And melts me

Now I’ll have to carry another scar

Yet I forgo

wishing on precious stars

And instead just let them shine ✨