Life And Death's Dance Poem by Cody Napier

Leaves whisper in the wind
Dancing off into the air
Falling to the ground gently
Autumn is here at last

The grass has begun to yellow
A cold chill creeps into the atmosphere
Each breath you take cleanses your lungs
Life is being slowly sucked out of nature

There's beauty in death we'll never understand
Our clocks are wound longer
We bear witness to beginning and end
But we never see the circle complete itself

What happens to the souls that leave the dead?
Do they return to the Source to begin again?
Like the leaves that die in fall and disappear by winter?
The trees sprout new ones come spring
But what if those are the same ones the winter consumed?

Does nature recycle itself?
Is life a circle that never ends?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
There's no beginning, there's no end
There just is