Maverick Mist

Life is more sweet than I
Knew: the shifted scene
Less wavered, more trimmed with light,
Than the years before.
Look down. People pass over the ice
As a file of thin ghosts creep,
And fade beyond the hill.
You, and you, and you–
Small souls, shrinking away.
And you, and you, and you,
Bearing lights in your hands,
Approaching eternally….. Life is
More sweet than I knew.

Mark Turbyfill