40 DAYS

A fourty day period normally associated with the end of a period like, school or national service, also a period of trial. For me, just the start of a longer period.

How ever long it take...

I watch the sky, I follow the sun

I see the wind, the dust and feel the cold

Daredevils dancing on the emptyness of gold

A landscape framed in winter, given what it can...

I stand and wait, sit and wait, lie down and wait

Some day will come with warmth and moist to be seen

Some day will bring the rain to turn this gold and red to green

A landscape of winter...for spring it can only wait

For life I sit still like death and wait, listening, lingering, waiting

Here in the dark a change will bring life again, hoping, waiting

However long it take...