Seasonal Transformation

dark light dark are the colors
with which I am presented
when gazing outside my window
early in the morning...  shades
of greens belonging to the
leaves of trees and various
hues of browns from light to
dark from the trees on which
these leaves are connected...
a morning slash of colors
brought to me by the sun,
no clouds in the sky to 
distort my vision or mental
understandings of how nature
tends to her own, even when
the seasons change and these
leaves turn to oranges and reds
and fall to the ground...  it is
not a mystery but a seasonal
transformation of which I'm a
lifelong participant observing the
beauty of the changing seasons.

September 23, 2023