without a doubt

You know me inside out 

Sure of my feelings for you 

Know without a doubt 

With no need for these words  

And I have the same certainty 

Knowing your feelings for me 

Steady constant enduring 

As our lives evolve together 

Direct and true in what you say 

Deception is not in your vocabulary 

Making for honest open communication 

Essential to our trust

As the years and decades pass

Circumstances change 

Challenges present themselves 

And we adjust and adapt as we can 

What remains the same is our bond 

Happy we have each other 

Always approaching things together 

Making everything better 

MFaul Environmental Center October 24, 2025

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October trees

When the human skeleton displays appear 

Arms outstretched as if alive

October trees show off their reds and yellows

Drawing back in their precious green 

Dead leaves falling nipped by cold

Drifting off like early snow

Leaving the trees stripped bare

Revealing their skeletal structure

 

The human skeletons are dead of course 

And most certainly do not come back to life 

And never were alive to be precise 

Being outsize plastic replicas

But the trees can and will do it 

After standing naked and exposed all winter 

Enduring the freezing cold 

That would be the death of me 

I could do without these skeleton displays 

Larger than life as big as dinosaurs 

As if to presage human extinction 

But the trees in silhouette are whispering

I was here before you were born

I will be here after you are gone

Continuing to grow year after year

In my almost imperceptible way

Celery Farm October 22, 2025

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