The Seasons

(Winter)

Autumn now bids us goodbye

Where, once, pale blue skies

Echoed the blue of my lover’s eyes

Now winter, holds us in its deathly grip

Dark mornings afternoons and days

The pale autumn sun is missed

In so many ways

Howling winds

That Freeze the soul

To chill the bones is winters goal

Frozen ice that crackles underfoot

Belching chimneys of dark black soot

Icy fog to freeze your fingers and toes

Jack Frost to bite your chin and nose

Winter, now bleeds us white

Like frozen empty corpses

Where night is day and day is night

Christmas waits with baited breath

As the old year staggers to its death

And once more mother earth

Waits patiently for rebirth

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