The Petal's Fall

Next to the road’s trough The cosmos flowers bow Down and curtsy As if to royalty As we pass by Waving wanly as they die The road is wrapped in misty shrouds Trees hugged by earthbound clouds Cosmos petals dripping tears End of season, end of years Before frost falls all glory lost Browning leaves in crusted frost Before they die a last hurrah As courting bees made each a ma And as things die down at last to rest Seed in soil by God’s Word blessed Waiting patiently, silently, sleepily Until frosted mist warms oh so weepily Announcing spring in early rays Of shorter nights and longer days To raise a head through soil so dead To live again as God’s Word said So we too grow and flower and die But no need to wail and cry As we too a seed becomes Until our Lord on cloud crown comes