Brightly Quietly Softly Fade Away

Bright and colorful and 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 was written on November 19, 2018