Speed of Presence

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. ~ Rumi
 
Exuberance reveals many colors;
it's an outward sharing of fertility  
 
Spring shares a newness of youth
a fertile aliveness of birth;
Autumn returns that fertility
  of seasoned experience  
  and warm intimacy to the earth;  
 
its urgent poignancy resides
  in the recognition of a limited future
  Spring knows nothing about
 
Everybody loves Spring
   until Autumn presents itself
allowing the natural coming and going  
  of that whose time has come and gone
 
It slows down to the speed of Presence
changing once again the equation  
  from willful giving to willing release
 
  without which there can be no Spring  
~
 
 
# Rumi