After Autumn Rain
by RC DeWinter
Title
After Autumn Rain
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Chalk
Description
Copyright 2015 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Orphans of the Storm
Rain bucketed down,
cold and full of coming winterchill,
and wind - the wind!
A restless cosmic traveller
determined to rearrange the landscape,
leaving it a chaotic abstract
of autumn's former solemn beauty.
Eventually it stopped, that storm,
and I, housebound for hours, needed air.
Though I knew my shoes would drown
in vicious muddy puddles
out I stepped into the twilight aftermath,
just to breathe, to waken dormant blood,
to see what I could see beyond four walls.
Sad and sodden leaves lay beaten on the ground,
haphazard huddled innocents
whose offered beauty, harshly stripped
from maple, birch and oak,
was ignored in favor of capricious destruction;
but then, indifferent nature
plays no favorites with her children.
If leaves can suffer pain I know their feeling:
one minute still attached to life,
the next flung willy-nilly beyond rescue.
As much as they might wish to live,
an unknown, unseen hand has otherwise decreed.
We are orphans, these leaves and I,
consigned to that great graveyard known as chance.
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter
Detail of a very wet October day in Newtown, Connecticut.
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