The spaces between 

The summer and winter rings 

Tell a different tale 

A smokey blue haze

Turning thick tree trunks to teal

Another ring forms 

Deep in dreary fog

Running to flickering lights 

Did I lose my way? 

Cold toes frozen nose

Curled up under thick blankets 

These are brighter days

Oil swirls in the ice

Like liquid lava layers

Frozen in clear glass 

A churning stomach 

Distant voices calling me

While I pay my dues

Upon the dark peaks 

Fields of burning sunshine play

And I am grateful 

Dark suspended clouds 

Hang over these final chords

Before the sea change 

Another pink heart

Slowly filling up with clouds

Until the clock stops 

Like a wild dog

I drove you away again

Just let me hold you

A moth to a flame

My wings keep on getting burnt 

Now I am grounded 

The wind and the sea

Two old friends sing together 

A murmuration

From swaying treetops 

Watching the sun falling down

Into orange waves 

Fading dusty light

With no contrast or shadow

 Gloomy twilight. Dusk. 

Sink in the mire

You slippery slip shod feet

I will not need you 

Feelings we borrowed 

Taken from parallel keys

A minor set back 

Tiny grains of sand 

Dripping between glass vials 

Time forever runs

No smoke without fire

So where would be the mountain

Without any edge?  

Never ending rain

Falling over everything 

This beautiful rain 

The joy of clean rain

The hope of a brand new day

The warmth of sunrise 

And the rain came down 

Washing away summer dust

Time for a fresh start 

I take it all back

They don’t love you like I do

Only this. I’m done. 

Back on the back seat

Like we are sixteen again 

Pouring out hearts out 

You’ll hardly notice 

And you’ll do fine without me

Such self deception