Out of Eden

I'm never more relaxed than when
... I'm in the autumn woods.
Where my heart can relax
... ah,  friends, this is the goods!

High atop an old Oak tree
... I'm free from it all.
Away from the humdrum world
... as autumn acorns fall.

Watching the sun rise in the east
... watching it track across western sky.
Twelve hours seem but an instant
... 'til days light, sighs goodbye.

Oh, if only I could live all my life
... in such serenity as this day.
In perfect peace up so high
... nothing could take it away.

Alas, but just as autumn leaves
... are falling all around.
So too I, heart and all
... return to the ground.

Cast out of Eden...

 

 Russ Pergram