elegy....to a friend

....and what fell was silent
as a leaf's fall after
the spring of open up,
the summer of flaring out
and the fall of drawing in.
As the sap fall into the depths
to the heart of the earth,
so we draw into the source.
AND quietly, without goodbye,
We go over---
silent as a leaf's fall
quiet as the snow....
the end of a life that was thunder
and flashing out
--a glory!
and...silent as a leaf's fall
we surrender into the arms of life....

1977 for Tiny