I see the leaves have changed
So I ask myself, if I’ve changed too
Have those wrinkles now spread wide
From dry and salted corners of my eyes
Do the drifting hairs, piling on my pillows
As the Willows dew, need eternal blowing
Now that the grass has stopped growing
Will the lights dim, days become shorter
Has my shrinking stature, shrunk to order
Do towering, ancient trees, come to hurt
As they sway on the wind of time’s skirts
Filling with fire, knees have been bent
Aching hands lent, to build this fortune
Fate to which the once tall have fallen
Callin’ now on the breeze a beckoning
Come a bitter, Winter day’s reckoning
One day too I will lay upon the ground
I pray you are there to hear the sound
So I don’t want to be, the last one to go
To see you lying there, cold in the snow
You always hated, those frozen words
Better to whistle for the songs of birds
To fly you to a throne you have known
I don’t want to be, or to go on alone
Rolling too long, I have been that stone
Waiting for all those fading around me
Always has been the way with my family
My father sitting, while all his dies are cast
Watching in his chair, black and white past
The colors faded from life and in his stare
As the voices from the headphones blare
His world shrunken, heads of warrior past
Uneaten, the tasteless meals, forever last
Blind in one eye and losing grip upon sight
A suit and tie, hanging loosely from gaunt
The mirror lies, never showing that haunt
Learn to live knowing, our last hunt’s guide
Keep the broken car going, for that final ride
Lend me your heart and then let me steal it
Hold my hand tightly while I can still feel it
Let’s move on together, before December
Teach me to breathe, I promise to remember
Reach eternity, side by side, cheek to cheek
Together on a blanket, laying on the beach
Our favorite songs playing, just out of reach
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