Autumnal Omen

They have emerged together turning their face on dignity

Concealing their gifts of affluence in the vault of the heavens

Go my solitary one without my powers hitherto

Make your own reliance as within the soul I bestowed

Free your prison with your only will for I shall not be escorting

Make haste in peace and let no other permeate you egg

And yes you will find all worldliness will vanquish

A panic will overwhelm your confidence

Set aside is the heat of the sun for you to live by moonlit eve

And remember the child once were had no escape

And tears were the only means to dissipate time

Look into the prism of now dimmest light

Look hard and long and for silence

You will find the tiniest rainbow still stirring in the nest

Alone and lonely, impoverished and weak

Still presides the determination to seek out small light

Here you will restore more than you will know

Still you will grow abandon from the child

Take no heed in excess

Rest now and forever treasure the benign

The time is nigh and vastly disdain

As you will see when the blood moon arises

By this autumnal dance will become as lifeless

These groves of flourishing umbrage will remind

You are held in a grip helpless to go lower

And then by the siren wine imbibed

You will from the great ash rise again in time

Beware now for days will you swoon to your depth

By michael R Pinnell 2002