Gold on green

Sunlight kisses sway

Freshness, affinity

Absorb into my bones, yet

Layered in the undergrowth

A waiting

 

Time

You perplexing burden

Heavy hypnotising snake

Unfathomable

Unfolding and unleashing

Years upon seasons

Generations

This torrent vanishing all

I know

 

Caught in the current

 

We are

I am

 

But not lost

 

 

First published in enclave: http://enclave.entropymag.org/finalpoem-from-ann-van-wijgerden/