You entered my
Life like spring
Full of blossom
And promise next
You were like
Summer full of
Sunshine and heat
Now we’ve cooled
Like the crisp
Winds of Autumn
Full of color
And next we’ll
Behave like winter
Complete with celebration
And the warmth
Of togetherness until
Then let us
Enjoy each other
Like the seasons
As they come
I don’t write
To you anymore
Though thinking I
Do I wonder
If this absence
Is like far
Off thunder warning
Of storms or
If you’ve simply
Evaporated like a
Tide pool in
The blazing sun
Of my mind
The thought of
You brings some
Joy like cloud
Bursts on the
Dog days of
Summer but mostly
Questions like a
Dog at the
Fence wondering if
The bus will
Bring Jack or
Jill back home
Bad dreams greeted
Me this morning
Filled with unrequited
Loves that haunted
Me like teasing
Ghouls some I’ve
Never dreamed before
Others have long
Brought me pain
Unable to shed
These terrors upon
Awakening I now
Shiver with a
Very heavy heart
Yes I’m guilty
Of forcing your
Roundness into the
Square hole of
Me guilty of
Concocting a dream
Of us and
Happily ever after
When the truth
Of you withered
On the vine
Like ignored and
Passed over fruit
Left to rot
In reality’s sun
Back to planting
I will tend
To my orchard
The next time
Around bringing home
Next years harvest
