Eat

When those sunny days turned

into fall, and you remained

firmly by my side,

I knew that I could devour

life again - digest the seconds and

minutes and hours yet

unlived, and allow the

sour sweetness of

disbelief to saturate my

plain existence. The leaves fell around

us, and we never faltered, refusing

to hit the ground with them -

those maples and oaks

and birches, all

encrusting the stake we made. This,

I mistakenly thought, was

all for nought.

I feel fate laughing at me still, and my

foolishness, long since departed. So,

let use eat up this life, drink in

ourselves, our souls, and

relish in the swollen

contentment of our

bellies until we are

overfilled.

Copyright, Catherine Young, 2011.