Gone

Playing around one day, I put my last name in the search engine to see what came up. This wonderful, emotionally moving picture came up on the first page. I'm so sorry there was no info to credit the family and honor the one who took the picture. But, of course, it demanded a poem.

                            GONE

      Year by year as the summers pass
      God changes the clothes of leaves and grass
      Puts on Fall colors ... then strips them bare
      While He's preparing spring clothes to wear

                                                                And in the houses and homes of men
                                                                They're packing away their clothes again
They bring forth warm, forgotten things
As the trees turn brown and the cold wind sings

Life is like that throughout our time
The seasons change as we leave behind
The shell of the thing we used to be
And accept new garments gracefully

My Summer and Fall are long since gone
My Winter stripping has now been done
And this old garment He's packed away
Till it's resurrected one Spring day
                                                                                                            2004  (Glome)