These days that become the calling of birds

Into dawn’s opening eyes

Just mornings that were once full of music became silent

The sky crying into my arms, the sun that was felt fell

The leaves that were so close drifted away to where the rest were held

Just one more day, just one more night

Just one cold day amongst the heat

To shiver under the clouds that kept the sun company

For far too long

I should’ve known that the weather could not hold still

Locking away the sun into a room, to treasure there

For it to escape and bring back the flowers

That seem to have withered over night

If only it could run back into summer’s welcoming embrace

But forgotten, quickly leaving to escape

To hold down our sleeves, and pull together our doors

Desperate for the sun to come back, desperate for warmth

Desperate for something that will come again once the day has worn thin

To scoop up the stars from the place they had hid

To awake to the birdsong through the open window

Again to live another day, when the sun returned

When gone again, we’ll know we never learned