Autumn Darkens into Fall

 Autumn darkens into fall

as the days grow shorter into night

and the air turns cold against the sky,

morning’s sun and evening’s rising moon

and starlight set in darkness shining. Our spirits

turn inward now toward our hearts and souls

seeking the self, hidden, too, by the dark and cold,

rapt as we are by the change of the seasons, one

into the next, a transformation done in darkness

and a trial by the fires that burn within us

to weather the changes, hardened as steel,

unyielding, yielding only to that which we are,

and are becoming, a metamorphosis into ourselves,

made perfect in the cycle of the seasons changing.