Brightly Quietly Softly Fade Away

Bright

colourful

full of life.

Seasons pass or only days

and as I sit

the soft petals 

fall

the best friends

pass over the sun again,

old acquaintances

 disappear 

on vanishing paths,

my soul stays,

showing my way,

decades fade

eras long gone 

where the jade

 was at my door,
sustaining rice fields,

earth trodden floor.

Mystical life,

I just admire

carpets of cherry upon the wood.

I am happiest here

though I know I could

fade away

 on any

 day.

- Five days with peonies -