Vitamin Gold

Aspen Grove in Autum


Gold
in high-altitude hues
scatters its abundance across the sky

Leaves,
full and round as moons, as coins,
fall brightly from aloft
to become the currency of change.

Without this harvest
of season's shift
spring would tire and dim
and green become a thing
less-longed for;
sought
only as the prize for those now living

and unappreciated as the
resurrection
of those who passed before.