An Autumn Heart Waiting for Spring to Start

Leaves turn to gold

And blanket the ground

The air is cool

And birds don’t make a sound.

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Soon there will not be

Much to cover her

Until the snows of winter

Frost her in white fur.

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I am much like that tree

In my autumn days

I felt a chill and change

In the fog of winter’s haze.

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The Spring of youth and romance

Bloomed like tiny flowers

Upon my memories

An ancient perfume to comfort in these hours.

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Pressed between the pages

Of my heart and soul and mind

Spring was a part of us

And Summer we’d soon find.

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Summer warmed out hearts

The Son so richly blessed

With warm and quenching rain

And our heads He gently caressed.

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Yet here again is Autumn

And it has brought again

The gift of change

And the tears of heaven’s rain.

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Soon it will be winter’s veil

Sweeping across my soul

Protecting the buds of Spring

From death’s icy cold.

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As I process through these days of remembering loss, I am reminded to remember all the seasons.  In loss we can get stuck in the season of their passing, and forget the season of our living.

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