Long warm evening light

Fragile memories of summer

Once I was a child

Frayed around the edges

Like butter on too much bread

Held on by fine threads

Heavily I fell

My limbs broken my crown smashed

Perfect fire wood

Window panes rattle

My nerves torn to paper shreds

Standing on the edge

The years roll onward

As I become my father

Inexorably

Sleeping after noon

The city slumbers soundly

While we wonder on

Rising with the sun
Our next adventure awaits

Are you ready yet?

A empty fortress

Crumbles under every tide

The sea always wins

My desire for

External validation

Is needy and sad

Old stone walls crumble

Built before our parent’s days

They will outlive us

Half a moon away

Dance lightly over black waves

Am I moved by tides?

Sand blasted on shore

We shelter under the rocks

As the tide comes in

Thirsty sun sponges

Dried and cracked after winter

Soaking up photons

Strange tall birds nestle

Atop alien pylons

We felled all the trees

Underneath the sea

Buried in a concrete tube

Is this the last time?

Ears drumming like rain

Drifting through the warm night air

It’s home time again

Clawing winds punish

Branches relentlessly cruel

Until fibres snap

On quiet canals

In the dappled leafy shade

Watch time slowly die

In mountains of books

The crushing weight of dead words

Paper avalanche

Rattling through tubes

Grey steel city arteries

Carry us all home

When I spread my wings

And they no longer bear me

Please carry me home

By the cold wind blown

In little eddys we swirl

Autumn that remains

And so it ended

This day so long and noisy

So to bed I go