Seasons: Fall (Nothing Lasts Forever)

Uninvited, not unwanted, With a voice soft, but insistent, You entered unannounced, Standing close at such great distance.

You pulled me near enough Only then to push away And, though without rebuff, I suppose I did the same.

Evening’s fog fell on our love, Hanging on that pause of night; Dawn interrupted from above, Which rendered gone by break of light.

I watched your outline rise and fall, But with too respectful a gaze, Which disappeared at morning’s call And soon diffused there in the haze.

That infernal rising sun, Which beset a troubled sky, Did break a love before begun, So that one night…it must suffice.