Autumnal Equinox

Is the Day half Light or is it Night that’s half Dark?
In whose realm do we find the grey?
Divided by time and spectrum, cockcrow and nightingale’s song;
with fall comes the ebbing of Radiance and the rising of Shadow.
The wind changing from balmy breezes to polar gusts tell the future of the leaves.
The Brilliance of sunlit leaves fade and become the Gloom of nature’s yearly sleep;
leaving empty nests and branches in the muted autumn days.
Overnight the temperatures sudden drop from summer heat to autumn crisp presages winter ice.
Does the Day recede like falling tides,
or does the Night encroach like the rising tides?

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 22 September 2016