Giant owl eyes wake

As dusk creeps into the woods

The badgers emerge

Woken with birdsong

Music from another world

That raises the dead

On soft summer lawns

Where tiny feet dare to tread

In their mother’s steps

Follow me downstream

Like water under the bridge

To the ocean goes 

Days merge into one

Snowballs in an avalanche

Will I break or melt?

In the morning fog

Carefully combing the beach

A scavenger hunt

Since that starry night

My whole heart has come undone

Take me to the sea

Must I let you go?

It’s only been three short years

Slowly you emerge

Between dark rain clouds

Sunlit ladders I won’t reach

A long way to fall

Falling like deaf ears

From golden fields of harvest

In waiting dream boats

A host of spectres

From ancient barrows rising

Insanity looms

Even smoke signals

Draw my eyes to lowering clouds

The storm rolls nearer

After sun the rain

Seasons come and go again

After joy comes pain

Airless summer nights

Blurred noises and slurred vision

Every breath repressed

The green summer leaves

My heart tangled and knotted

I give up on sleep

This is how it ends

Like falling leaves fluttering

A fledgling’s first flight

Torn apart into

Tiny little pieces and

Trampled under foot

As the waves roll in

And out across the pebbles

Grinding them to sand

In the beating sun

A pulsing tattoo on drums

Slowly fades away

Stuck in this dark cave

Cowering and terrified 

My life in their hands

Am I a spare part?

Am I just an appendix?

If so, amputate

Where did summer go?

It never is truly warm

In these northern climes

The horizon glows

Pine trees loom in silhouette 

Darkness never falls

We share the same sun

We breathe the same oxygen

Let’s keep the same earth