Bridges_WEP post

I look about at the world.  It seems this Age's Day has slipped into Night.

And that Night is dark with more than the drowning of the sun into the horizon, 

the fires long out, and the reason why is the only doubt. 

I try to remember the boy I once was.  

Would he approve of the man I've become, 

the choices I made, what little I learned from the past? 

The past … where the road behind is clear but the bridge is closed … 

where you learned to dance, but now the music slows.


The road ahead is unclear, 

and the toll to the nearing bridge, born of our choices, some wise, most utterly unwise, 

may be more than we will be able to pay.

We are in blistering summer, but Autumn lies ahead for all of us ... and the world.

Yet, Autumn is my favorite time of year.

Still,  this may well be the last Autumn for so many of us.



Autumn's very air fills our noses and lungs with the tang and wrinkling of leaf bonfires, 

of ripened apples making the heavy branches hang their heads as if in mourning for ice storms to come. 

Can you hear the leathery flutter of pheasant wings, the still happy liquid singing of a meandering stream, and the sad lament of a sparrow facing hunger?  
The red and gold of Autumn murmurs of happier times as I tramped lonely hills and haunted forests.   
And a peace fills me.  
The peace which is the reward of completing the long gauntlet of summer.  
 The quiet dark that precedes the winter of the soul which lurks just around the next bend towards the next bridge.   
A time for binding recent wounds and old -- and forgetting them, along with the misfortunes that brought them. 
May the bridge that lies before each of you 
have a tolerable toll and 
lead to a future that blesses 
more than damns.