Winter's Fruit

The northern star glittering against eternity

As musical notes flutter through the breeze

Unto the waves wandering wistfully by sea

Flowing beyond the unthawed arctic freeze.

Golden dreams danced among light's solstice

Whose gentle warm breath interwove destiny

As a fate with a lover's heat at precipice

And days ahead to be wrought with glee. 

It feels so long ago and yet so strange

How days pass growing more beautifully

Like the tune of love could never change

And that was the music you gave to me. 

Autumn's eve called about the apple of Eve

To shatter Eden in the dying of the light

Where no single soul else could know to grieve

So long as the silver days were shaded in blight.

Questions found solace in a dimming heart

That never knew the soundless nature of life

Or where it could find the next musical part

Beyond repetitive replicas running rife. 

Glistening sunshine and a blooming marigold

Champions to the heart and healthy harvest

Have few crossing days before the long cold

Turns Demeter's head pillowside to rest.

Frozen images crackle under frosting breath

And seep their way to the hopeful inner beat

Wrapping themselves entwined as a wreath

Wafting away soundless sundry plumes of heat.

It feels like yesterday and yet so sweet

How your music echoing in this deep empty

Can never be forsaken to any other beat

Than the same nostalgic song you played for me.