The Tapestry Within

"dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them here and there; even the last flower is withered; yet there is beauty in decay." Quote by_Constance La France The tapestry that hangs on my heart's wall is a woven fabric of yesterday's blooms of beautiful colored blossoms that have worn away from weathered years passed in silent refrain it's now a tattered pale state of gray fading away from wisdom lived and threads of age it's a mixture of beauty and tears that has begun to decay from life's tranquil serenity and life's raging tempest the colored threads woven are from my life's loom and they have begun to wither yet, still, hangs majestically in my heart and there it will stay woven by my hands of dreams and desires from the colored threads of memories found along the way there is a serenity in its worn weathered wear though threads have begun to unravel and its once brilliant colors have faded it still shows a life well lived and the roads traveled this tapestry will hang on my heart's wall until my life's gale winds blow unraveling every thread in its withered dying decay as both my tapestry and I...fade away 6/4/23 contest Writing Challenge "D" quotes sponsor Constance La France