Sonnett for Lora Lee (From last October)

Sonnet for Lora Lee on a quiet October Night

There are reasons everywhere I go
That show the way to love and its full trust
There are a countless billion trillion foes
to keep my eyes from chipping at their rust
I have seen the passion of my childhood
turned and shaken till the autumn winds
swirl their perfect colors through the woods
and bare the tallest trees of all their sins
As I approach the resting of my day
and years are fewer with the passing moons
the light has finally shone my every way
and focused on the life inside these rooms
It is the simple love that at last rests
so deeply in my grateful, beating chest.