East Coast Ira walks in the leaves of autumn.
They smell like fall.
They smell like frost.
They smell like change.
He travels from one ocean to the other,
but water is water and land is land.
Time is time,
but the time in between has slipped away.
He arrives in the last colors to fade with the sun.
It’s his face in the mirror, but not the way he remembers.
Better, maybe.
Sharper.
These days, it seems, are accelerated.
What’s out there pales in comparison to what’s in here
and seems to stretch into eternity, but just when he thought it would go on forever..
He hears her voice in a shell.
The time, the time is now.
She loves him, the Devil loves him and he remembers walking in the sand with her.
Here, to this spot where water is water and land is land
and the time in between has slipped away.
Trust The Devil You Know 