Farewell To Summer
Golden leaves
Fall to rot in puddles.
The party’s over
The guests left with the sun.
The wine’s all gone
We drank it til we were dizzy
The summer is lost
It left
We were all too busy
With our own farewells
to even wave adieu.
Farewell.
Farewell to summer
And the beauty it lent our lives.
The winter snows
Will never know,
The Christmas bells be mute,
The rain that melts that self same snow
For springtime’s garden of youth
Will never know
The beauty it lent our lives.
Farewell.
Harsh
The winds now with us
The falling rain
Adds force to the driving wind.
A single leaf
A lingering kiss of sunshine
Holding fast
In a naked tree
Seems out of place
Resilient
A life among the death.
Or is it sleeping
Is life wrapped up in warmth
Beneath the bark
Sleeping there in waiting
For the sunshine
In the springtime
As the dawn to light the dark.
Farewell
Farewell to summer.
Too late the smile
It’s gone
We’ll sleep in the warmth of your memory
And smile at your sunshine dawn
Farewell.
Copyright © Joe Murphy | Year Posted 2014
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