The Rise and Fall of It All

The Rise and Fall of it all The corruption of power rises to the top, it stays awhile like an unwanted visitor and eventually falls in a mighty way and is yesterday’s news. Beautiful leaves in glorious grandeur glorify the one who made them, shining with all their might, in artist’s-coloured hues, One week later, shrivel and crinkle beneath the feet of a travelling hiker, fallen in a heap, brown and discarded on the bottom of his shoes. The natural beauty of youth rises to display the perfection of one with perfect skin hair and shape and no weight to lose, While aging has ravaged a body leaving a twisted, wrinkled grey haired mess of one who remembers a better day… a very cruel muse! The hope of a new sunrise peaks through the darkness and rises high in the sky setting before me new possibilities to choose Then darkness slowly covers like a blanket, a smothering blackness that forces the descending light to lose. The rise and fall of it all and pondering these troubling thoughts have given me the blues!! Grace Daub written September 23, 2021