Seasons Bring

What happens?

When that star burns out, 

The one 

You wished on 

Years ago, 

That night, 

When youthful hope 

Caressed your skin 

Like sweet Spring dew 

On fresh-cut flowers. 

What happened? 

As sparklers fizzed, 

That July 4th 

On Hunter Hill 

Above our town, 

Whilst fireworks 

Blushed the sky 

With neon lips 

Of red and blue. 

(All night long.) 

What’s happening? 

This chilly Fall 

As green leaves shift 

From soft to brittle 

Brown and orange, 

Before their flight 

(not up, but down) 

As Earth’s 

Harvest Fest 

Ends. 

What'll happen? 

(Next) 

When snowflakes drift 

To cover tracks of . . . 

One last visit; 

One last kiss; 

One final farewell— 

With you in White, 

Like an unseasoned Bride

On her wedding night.