Autumn Rust

by RC DeWinter

Title

Autumn Rust

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils

Description

Copyright 2014 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

year's end

like the rolling year
that never slows its certain progress
to that darkest december day
i too am moving surely
inexorably in the same direction

autumn approaches
swift
confident
layering that which once was
lithe green and graceful
with a patina of rust
that will soon
but not without a certain beauty
overtake the radiance of summer

now well into the autumn
of my life
i too am so dusted
again not without a certain beauty
but sentient being that i am
i unlike the leaves of summer trees
am acutely aware of how fleeting
this latelife beauty is

one day soon i will
look out the window
and gaze upon a landscape
of steel sky and snow
all growing things killed
by the winterkiss of death

and when i turn my gaze
to the mirror there will be
the landscape of my face
transparent to the bone
the leering skull
grinning back at me
~ copyright 2014 RC deWinter

Autumn-kissed Virginia Creeper crawls across a fence in Middletown, Connecticut.

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