One Day In Autumn

“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.” 
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

One day in Autumn.......

Nekiah hand-stitched every single leaf

to make Tree Spirit costumes

for you and your friend, 

Isaac Blue Sky.

How could we know, back then,

just how precious

were those fleeting

days of grace?

Just how fast it all was

flying by?

First, you grew.

Before I knew it,

before I was ready,

you were out of the nest

and away,

living all of your heartbreaks

and hard times,

so young and heedless and rash,

my hair slowly turning

the color of silvery ash.

Nekiah is gone.

It was cancer,

Isaac Blue Sky's life,

forever fractured.

Those innocent faces up there,

those round trusting eyes

that enraptured,

those smiles that had not yet

known pain........

remind me that once,

once in autumn,

we all lived precious days

that will not,

will not ever

   come

          again.

for Susan's prompt at Mid-Weel Motif: One day in the life..........I admit, I slightly altered a poem written in 2010 for this prompt, given I have spent the day online working on other things. It just seemed to fit.