My Time is Short

Waves of flitting verdant leaves, grasping what ebbing rays remained. It is not enough; it never is, up north.

“More! I need more! My time is short!”

But the hour would not relent. With rue, dusk crept as shadows cast long upon the surrounding ground.

“Come. You have done enough to earn this repose.”

black and white pencil silhouette of a simple landscape with a blurred long shadow mirroring the landscape

-gk