Autumn Mood

An Autumn Mood

I sit beside a lake outside of town

A month from now, the leaves will all be down.

The summer has been cooler than I’d like

But cool weather is better for a hike.

And so, I took a walk out to the lake,

No reason, just a walk for walking’s sake,

Some time to sit in quietude alone.

It’s shocking, what a hermit I have grown,

Avoiding the solicitude of friends.

It’s like that, sometimes, when a marriage ends.

We’ve been apart and single now for years

And yet, at times, it still brings me to tears.

But Autumn always plays this game with me.

It’s like no other season seems to be.

The melancholy that besets some days

Strikes me as odd in oh, so many ways.

I love to see the changes in the trees

And feel the freshness of an Autumn breeze.

There’s nothing like an Autumn country fair

The smells and tastes that one encounters there.

But then, a sudden sadness grips my heart

It always has, and now that we’re apart,

It only seems to add a deeper blue.

How nice!  Now, I can blame this mood on YOU!