Silent Drifting

Beyond the pane of glass

Silent, Drifting Down

The snow kisses the sky

Kisses the air

Kisses the ground

Shielding in white

The green of autumn grass

The blanket of gold and orange

Secreted beneath

Insulating cold warmth

The silence filters into my life

Where my walls

My protectors

My past

My yearnings

My memories

My knowledge of who I am

All of it and all of me

Silent, Drifting down

And slowly out

To make way for the new

Never the same

Never the old

Never to return to the patterns

That were a kaleidoscope

Meshing pain and joy

Until I did not know where one

Ended

And where one

Began

I am new

Alive

And my breath lifts on

Silent, Drifting wings

©akm 10/21/07