Into The Wild

Beneath shadowed trees, between gnarled roots

Darkened cool of dampened earth

This wide berth of forgotten earth

This soft hush, velour reserve

I withdraw in this green enclave

Caving in its fragrant maw, here I thaw

Into mossy feelings 

Of wordless whisperings

Light pierce the canopy

I lay in its yellow glare

Its bothersome rays of jovial mare

Trespass my mellow turf

While time whiles away, heedless I stay

With hazy dreams of gentle gladness

While the darkening day swallows 

the trail home, I say;

      Let the dark face my wild soul

      In this wilderness, I am home.