AUGUST

Is this the last

day of Summer

or the first

day of Autumn?

We have walked,

filled with regret,

through the forest

with yellow and red

growing in abundance

among the dark green

boughs of evergreen trees.

The river running

through the woods

barely exists

in its channel, the rain

in the morning,

the rain in the evening

but drops in the drought;

the water in the

stream stands

waiting for something

to change, like we do.

It has nowhere to go.

15.08.2019