Until the Season Passes

Flittering like a leaf
caught in an old cobweb
on the side of a house

desperately hanging on
but will eventually release
and drift to the ground

like old things in our lives
they cling until the season passes
and nature finally makes us let go.

-k. thompson, Until the Season Passes

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