Friday, October 10, 2008

The Empty Beauty of September


The hollowness and dread, the poignant bittersweet slant of the sun's rays, the occasional blast of the coming cold winds. All this is why I did not choose to write during September, the month that has always been the start of my undoing. I have always been able to sense the future, if not the events, then certainly the emotions that are coming my way. And as soon as the Fall Equinox arrives, I begin to glimpse the dark tunnel of winter, and I slowly turn around into myself, to sift through the year's offerings and replenish what has been lost as I wait silently for the sun to lure me back out into the world for the Rebirth that is Spring.