Lichen to Bittersweet

The trail is new

yet somehow familar

sifting over your senses

like a summer dew

that leads you through

Lichen to Bittersweet

You follow the path

bordering braken and pine

anticipating adventure

you may fearfully decline

shadowed by the boulders

etched in your mind

Lichen to Bittersweet

And so the web of trails

weave on

amidst the evening twilight

and the morning fog

you trod the way crisscrossed

with pebble and stone

Lichen to Bittersweet

 

-DiAnna Smith