Woodcut by Albrecht Dürer
I feel like I am drifting
call me close.
The sky is not uplifting
small the dose
of despair’s bitter taste and remedies.
Tomorrow’s sun is shy
the moon is high tonight
should I die,
and if I do I won’t know
what your summer was like
or what your winter will be
all the while without me.
Will the birds sing sweetly still,
or will summer cry a misty chill
when haunting autumn sweeps a melody
of dead leaves chasing our abandoned tree?
Cling to me but wrap yourself tenderly
in warmer summer days.
I feel I have been taken,
hold me near.
These dreams are not for waking,
all in fear –
no colours here amid sleeping hope
tomorrow’s day is turned to night
but morning is here
I will die tonight –
but before I do, tell me
what you will do without me
and how you will send me
into spring’s warm arms awaiting
summer’s amber smile abating
into autumn’s cooler sating
of the ambling seasons all
longing for winter’s sigh –
I feel like I am slipping
hold my fears…
Aptly named Anita. I let out a deep breath after reading this, it hit me where it counts.
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Well, I’m please about that (if you see what I mean). Thanks for reading, Lisa.
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Very deep, felt it so strongly.
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Thank you, Helene.
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WOW, hard-hitting yet beautiful.
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Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Most welcome 🙂
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Lovely and powerful poem. Always loved the artist Durer, and especially this woodcut, because the face is so much like my mother’s who suffered from depression.
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It is an awful shackle and terribly mismanaged still today. Thank you for reading.
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Oh gosh. I am in tears. Beautifully written and so moving
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Oh dear, but I am glad it got you that much lol. Thanks, Elaine.
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Brava Anita! Great write!
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Thank you very much, means a lot.
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Reading you is always a pleasure, big pleasure, your rustling words!
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Well I am genuinely touched by that. Thank you.
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