Reflections of September

The late afternoon casts a shadow upon the rangy summer grass While they pick busily on weeds and seeds Passing along is the season that moves so fast It must be an oasis of great height to them When they bend into the great green abyss So sweet, they are jumping from stem to stem If life was so simple as this, find your food then rest Rest yes, rest upon your limb And there you chirp so brown and trimly dressed Patience and I are but a guest While the warm days are at their abbreviated test No, neither a moment, nor a second in nature is wasted at best For change is inevitability So I shall greet the new light And watch as the sparrow adjusts in their tranquility