Saturday, July 20, 2013

Oasis




Herein lived the past , and now the future
Over the years people showed up, left things:

a comment -  observations that stayed,
paintings, photographs, poems, snapshots of life somewhere somewhen
a card game, a tune or two, or a thought (mostly thoughts),  flowers, dusty books,
 and apparently seeds to future life

Some lives ended too soon, life too much a burden --- maybe next time.
and there were secrets  . . . .  there are always secrets

pretty soon people stopped coming
they were already there in spirit and memory

shifting time  ~~~

the place became silent as a spring and life passed on to another form --
maybe where the past is kept somehow preserved  (how revealed I don't know)







Sarah rests in trees  1864