Awake and Alive I bow to the
morning winds, for today they are my teacher.
Cool currents run across my neck and dance a wave of
shiver that awakens me to the present.
The
mornings are different today. The trees
bare their naked roots and blanket the earth to keep her warm for the winter.
The
air is crisp and poised as it penetrates my layers. Not by force, but by advancing through
yielding to my very form. Like
quicksand, it enters every space I do not fill.
A
gust of wind stokes the fire and brings alive embers of slumber from warmth
before.
Together
with sacrificed limbs of an approaching winter, the flame comes alive in a
dance with the advancing wind.
Where
it advances, the fire yields. And in its
retreat, the fire advances. A delicate dance that imbues life into the elements
of change.