Summer

The summer never came this year

This summer I faced my greatest fear

Autumn is now in the air

It arrived too soon

I’ve seen enough

Death and decay

I need to see another way

Obscured joy through endless negativity

Me, you, simple solution

Seems harder fought

Than a revolution

Fighting against the tides

Of an angry sea

Take a breath, the salt air

The humidity

In your hair

Hearts face an eternal scare

That won’t subsist

Time has been our recorder

The ups and downs, tumult, disorder

The struggles we have had to face

Had nothing with us to do

Please just take my hand

Walk with me

along the strand

Beat back the waves,

feet sink in syrupy sand

We wobble, twist, but won’t fall down

I know how dark and cold the days are seeming

I know, in our hearts

That you and I are still dreaming and then

The sun will rise and perhaps

We’ll be blinded by the snow-

lose our way

But we both know the weather’s always changing

One thing leads to another

You’re a lover, you’re a mother

Expectations, so many things can overwhelm

Me too, I get the sensation

My narrative a retaliation of every time I try to turn things

Around and make them right

Leaves have yellowed, crisp and fallen

Laughter so often confused with bawling

Loneliness as we leave the tree

Fall upon the ground

The wind can sweep us both away

Spiral dance and joyful fray

Just have to be where we are today

Pray the rest will come

I know how cold and dark the days are seeming

I know, in our minds

That you and I are still dreaming and then

The sun will rise, perhaps

We’ll be blinded by the beauty

If only we can see through the pain

But we both know the weather’s always changing

The summer never came this year

This summer I faced my greatest fear

Autumn’s brief in this part of the world

It’s arrived too soon

I’ve seen enough

Death and decay

I need to see another way

Long for the bough, the branch, the birds

Come fly away with me

We can be free, eternity

Untethered by the complications

That seem to surround

Believe in me, I’ll believe in you

And hopefully the belief with soak right through

To touch our hearts, silence self-doubt

Then summer may begin