Ash I Cross

[purplie]

and through I glimpse                                  
there lies a wood
encroached in light
until the dawn

and moons do blow
one at a time
one, two, or five
into twilight

if loss be all
that life will cost
my youth be just
a road I crossed

to woods in snow,
saplings to ash
I am the road
lying so flat

I don't understand it one bit, but I can feel that it's not empty, so I look forward to hearing others' comments.

I'm not sure whether 'encroached in light' is the best phrase or the worst. It's a lovely novel phrase, but I can't make sense of it in the context.

The rhyme in the third stanza made me stop and look around for other rhymes that weren't there. Is that intentional?