Character, in time - Carne Lowgren

[Larry Robinson]

Character, in time

 

The ancient mountain king

presides quietly in summer sun

and shakes shaggy limbs

in winter winds -

having long forgotten

youthful dreams:

 
the earnest pursuit of self

in a tidy, upright

but tender spire

aspiring to the sky

before time and the weather

cut here, on his windward side.

 
A lightning strike;

a cold snap perhaps

and the main shoot died.

 

But life goes on where it can

becoming a complex and contorted

monument to persistence, resistance

and the slow surrender

to whatever character

becomes in time.

 

	- Carne Lowgren