Changes

written August 23, 2000

I sit here in the shadows

invisible to everyone

because they are invisible to me

They walk through the night

in little clusters with smiles

on their faces

The trees tower over me

protecting me from harm

I think of the changes taking

place around me

Children starting lives,

in control of destinies

It's so strange

People leaving everything familiar,

everything they've ever known

Some never to return

Scattered like autumn leaves

in the wind

Bridges connecting forever friends

being burned beyond all recognition

I wish I could stop the clock

go back to a time of believing;

a time without pain and heartache

The child inside me misses

her simplistic life

But the woman on the outside can't stop

growing and pressing onward

So there's nothing left to do

but sit beneath the protecting arms

of my trees

and wait for the next breeze to come along