The pearls of life

Delicate, luminous pearls
landing carefully to the fragile,
colourful autumn leaf.
Basking at the sun on the crispy october's day.

And as the days get shorter,
as the weather gets colder,
these pearls gather all together to the rivers' bank.....
holding each others' nice and tide,
like a team of syncronised ice-skaters.

And there they start knitting a fabulous net around the rocks,
like a lace, beautiful, strong together.
And while they focus on that task,
somewhere else, on the top of the fells,
dances their sisters on the velvety air of purple and blue,
finally landing to the ground, covering the fells to the charming white garment -
to the fashion, that never grows out of style.

Pearls of life, water-
every single drop of it, is priceless.
Without it, no life can survive.


 Anneli Laulumaa 20.10.2019