Unknowing

vacationing from myself
amidst the tangled pines
I found
an answer

soft brown needles littered
the earth
stripes of pale
pink
held my hands

frozen as the sun
fell from
my sky
I stood
head bent
breath held

knowing
entered parted
lips
and washed through
filling
spiraling downward
pushed back by
hesitation
rising up

free again
shaking off
my embrace
to flow
between shadowy branches
and midnight mist

and blowing away
on the evening
breeze
leaving me
perched on
uncertainty