Wetlands in October

You can see the movement in the water,
but it makes no sound.
In the distance, cattails wave in the wind
that you neither feel nor hear.

The day’s end approaches and you have watched it,
watched the sun’s fall,
the late day light set the forests ablaze.
You have felt the temperature fall.

If one has to be alone,
this is the place, full of God’s peace,
a beauty without question,
senseless abundance

to set your lonely heart dancing
despite itself.