The Forest Night

Darkness lowered, a new world arrives
In the forest night
As branches lightly creak, and still the leaves
Deep into, the forest green
Pine needles creating, a silent bedding
Upon the floor of the forests needs
So still the pines, so aromatic
Protective of, the changing seasons
One by one from winter's spring
A brand new birth, upon the breeze
A baby deer, finds mother near
Seeks her comfort
Amid protective years
And the silent forest
Where sometimes at night,
Most suddenly
A fire awakens, everything
But then the great mother
Brings forth the rain
And nature's cry, "The right to live!"
Seems a song
A lullaby
Where the forest's creatures
All feel the appeal
The secret caress
Of the forest night
And the perpetual blanket
Of the warmth
That's here...

Tony Taylor