Rainbows & Wild Geese

Rainbows and wild geese –

            I chase after both tonight,

Hoping to transfix on page

            Their image and import.

Try to reflect their gleaming

            From ink into unsettled hearts.

It is capricious trying to capture

            The bittersweet comfort each brings. 

After summer security fades

            And rain return again to the Willamette

The transient colors bloom again in the sky.

Though fated to fade

Faithfully comes back when the sun

            Again turns the moisture on fire. 

And driven to leave by nature,

            The native geese

Calls their seasonal good-byes

To the water they will always return to.

En masse, their faith will take them

To shelter and then back again.

Listening to their fall calling,

            An echo of Spring’s greeting teases the wind. 

So there are more

Than two sureties  in this life;

Death and taxes are answered

            With Rainbows and wild geese.

Returning hope that one day

            All love will be requited,

That children will only be

            Conceived and raised in love,

That mankind will prove itself

            Noble and merciful

And it will hold transient beauty

            Permanently in its heart.

 

Ariel

Nov 20, 2005