Time to reflect... on others

Views in Verse - on conscience.  


Winter has just arrived here in Australia.

I don't know why it is (even in our kinder climate) but where we charge into spring with unbridled optimism ...winter seems to have the opposite effect. 

Leading us to perhaps reflect on how our life has been of recent times and maybe what we might have done a little better. 

But where these things might slow us for a little while, it is indeed a time to reflect on some of the harsher realities of the world

SOLSTICE

Enter the darkest of seasons

As a draft cuts cold

 'neath the door

Winter

brings a need for reflection

...just like others gone before

But how does one 

fathom the years?

Let alone 

make sense of it?

The lethargy builds

as the months go by...

not helping one little bit

Beyond ....to the window 

my meanderings drift

People rush along through sleet

Covering their heads 

as best they can

A spray fizzing up from their feet

I see a weathered gent

with much slower steps

His greatcoat hides his all

He stops to sit 

for reasons all his own

beside an unwelcoming wall

Below me the leaves have all fallen

They await a day in the yard

There they will stay 

till spring comes again

Right now 

it seems far too hard

Forwarded from my I phone - Grahame J Flynn