something to be thankful for..

[venusburn]

i've been awake all night. through the howling winds..watching crisp smoke dance in the currents and listening to leaves shed from their trees and scrape against rough cement. i found myself shifting my eyes, listening for unexpected movements of the insomniac spirts that linger around this residence. i was waiting to bathe in the hour awaiting dawn to brink, and take the walk down the empty street..sprinkled with stray leaves, screaming the season 'autumn' back at my welcoming eyes. i stumble apon a bit of closure and reassurance, signs of hope. with each pace i take closer and closer to the rocky mountain trails i feel the anticipation my little adventurous heart beats. harder and harder in my chest it drums..im walking up the slant to see the sun crest up over the valleys, and that golden glisten fills the plunging cracks of earth afar. as if some golden mist builds up like heavy air and glows above the mountain walls. the clouds milky like french vanilla, wisps of flavor swirled through the sky..and i can feel that gentle caress the morning brushes against my skin. and the sun is now warming any cold fears i may have had..and untangling the knot of emotion i was when i first peaked the slant. and now with not a sound..but birds singing at the last verse of dawn, the glow spreads. and i'm now reminded on how much nature has granted me. the red-yellow-brown-orange leaves dance with encouragment through the tunnels of the strong breeze.
and fall leaving a message,
a path to be found..