Remember when you took delight
in everything you ever did
the slightest thought a dream,
like pebbles splashing
in the stream.

Remember when you loved the night,
and music reached to where you hid,
standing out but in the team -
every day another
theme.

Remember then, now years take flight
from dragons and the tasks they bid,
with pull of age’s schemes
come slowing ways,
it seems.

You
are mine
as we
entwine
you know
the signs
as you
stay mine
as we
align
as we
resign
oh love
of mine
as we
combine.

Season long,
from shoots to shouts
to last parade then cut of spade
all mark season’s trade.
As light misleads, oh now I see
- means more to me than just
a change in nature’s song
these leaves - leave nothing gone,
sailing though their colours fade
hailing crowds with all they had or made
they urge me now to keep my trust,
nothing’s right, and nothing’s wrong
this circle never doubles,
these spirits never stray,
and in my heart
they stay.