A WALK IN THE FOREST


 The time is now, Autumn is alive with a different feeling,


  Darkness is longer in the morning, slowly the leaves are 
  Upon the ground.

  Plants and trees grow slower, nature never gives up on 
  The day,

  Animals are busy preparing as Winter is not far away, 
  Earlier the sun fades.

  A thought of a walk in the forest to escape for a moment, 
  everything,

  Tall trees that cover much of the sunlight that warms the 
  Land we wander.

  Leaves that have piled for many years make a sound beneath 
  These traveling feet,

  A walk in the forest, so many times I have dreamed of this 
  While trapped elsewhere.

  Quiet, yet not quiet, as there are sounds in a place as this 
  like there are no other,

  A walk in the forest, a dream that I have not yet discovered, 
  A reality discovered.

                               Keith Garrett