Simply Being

I am here! Simply here! Listening and looking…
The leaves are greener than yesterday,
and the days are cooler than last year,
Night is soon approaching, slowly and seducing
like the deep gaze of a lover,
But one needs to tread with care, as night likes to pry
on the most intimate secrets, calling and luring
and dragging you to the entrails of the earth
till you spit out the last word and let out
the last ghost that inhabits your very soul,
But night is your trusted confidant
and will guard you under her wings,
soothing, mystical, and ethereal, analogous to angels,
I surrender to the night… close my eyes and respire…
I am here! Just here!
Simply being.

--Bernadete vdw, ‘25