Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Longing for Peace

Where is the silence of the wood;

The sunlight on the leaf,

The cool, damp moss draped on the rock

In shadow’s deep relief.


I cannot reach that silent place

Where light and shadow play

Beneath the sun flecked evergreens;

It’s all too far away,


But I can reach back in my mind

To find that memory,

And I can almost smell the moss

That grows beside that tree

While sunlight plays across the leaves

And peace wells up in me.

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