Night Fall

The Night Fall My evening walk was interrupted by night. Keeping close the verge of the road I fell down a ditch, and saw stars as never before. A kaleidoscope of colours swiveling around and around in my head Life, we never see in daylight, was all around me, spirit shadows in a haste to find food and safety before man intruded. Knew I had caused chaos in their life, I got out of there and heard silent relief. Starry, starry night, as the song goes, trees moved and whispered scary stories about the man with the chainsaw, whether it is true there is a Paradise for trees. Wished I could tell them a tall story with a happy ending- no turning into winter woods and ashes for them, but a malevolent mule kept kicking me home as it wanted the night to itself.