On My Mind Monday

LINES WRITTEN IN THE DAYS OF GROWING DARKNESS

Every year we have been

witness to it: how the

world descends

into a rich mash, in order that

it may resume.

And therefore

who would cry out

to the petals on the ground

to stay,

knowing as we must,

how the vivacity of what was is married

to the vitality of what will be?

I don't say

it's easy, but

what else will do

if the love one claims to have for the world

be true?

so let us go on, cheerfully enough,

this and every crisping day.

though the sun be swinging east,

and the ponds be cold and black,

and the sweets of the year be doomed.

~ Mary Oliver

It feels more like summer here today than it has in weeks, yet the return of heat and humidity don't fool me.  I am keenly aware of the looming end of summer days.  I feel it not in the air, but in my heart and bones.