A Simple Step

 The first step outside in a late

September morning says all

that needs said about one season

ending and another beginning.

Dawn tells things no other part

of the day can and the fact year

after year this sermon with variation

is given speaks of its endurance

in, through the beauty of changing

seasons.  In our lives seasons

change more rapidly, more slowly

the cycles of fullness and emptiness

not as predictable as Spring, Summer,

Fall,and Winter though just as real,

though more often unnamed 

often lacking the beauty Nature doesn't.

Perhaps if we knew how to make blooming,

or lushness, or autumnal splendor or the beauty

of an utter nakedness ours we'd

be less resistant to change.

How I would that I could take a step

inside and know what stepping

outside this morning has told me.

-Byron Hoot