Matanzas Sundown-Venus Setting

A tobacco colored sunset over the Intracoastal Waterway at The Matanzas Inlet below Saint Augustine, Florida.

 

DOORWAYS (JHWatkins)

 

Our lives are spent near doorways,

Corridors between heaven and earth-

Mechanisms of the spirit-

Power grids with junctions-

On the borders of decisions-

And destiny generations.

 

Many have sensed them,

Watched and known

Channels of change,

Releasing forces,

That seasons have sown

Since the beginning-

Leaving footsteps to follow.

 

Some found them

Under redwood cathedrals,

Soft canopy mists,

Where winter rains washed

The soul survivors,

That could not have grown

Until they had gone

To sing in arenas of angels.

 

Others surprised the morning,

Resisting by rolling waters,

Speaking to dawn stars,

Bidding the night adieu-

Where the quiet

Was louder than the roaring future,

And, left with one clean choice,

Lit the fuse

That started the fire-

And changed their world.

 

James Watkins

Done