Keep Company

Keep company with people:
whether they be friends or strangers.
The people around you are your reminder
that the seasons in you are also in others,
and that all the many seasons
you see in others are also in you.


It helps us neither
hold on to the flowers of spring,
nor try and sweep away
the falling autumn leaves:
welcoming the changing seasons,
as the part of nature.

Our friends remind us of this.