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!
