Each New Beginning

Each new beginning forewarns of each new end And I in frozen slumber am a passenger On this eternal journey. Buildings built on living earth, Shuttered houses rise and fall, Wood and plaster crumble In a heap upon the soil. Fire consumes the fallen waste to ashes, To start anew, to start anew. In the warm haze of sultry light Gray clouds obliterate the sun. The earthworm turns beneath The fallen, brittle leaves. Summer yields to fall And fall to spring. And spring ignites the buds Which soon become the bloom Of soft perfume. My present is my past; My future wrapped beneath cold stars And blue-moon comfort As time moves and rolls Like a wave caressing the glittering sand. Perception is a curved ray of burning sun With falsity abundant in its majesty; I am the empty vessel Awaiting to be filled With the clear, cool water Of knowledge.