Bittersweet

This piece has many meanings.

   Into the wind they toss their 
  leaves; golds and browns and reds aplenty
      Our children have grown and gone away lea
  ving     only a space in their stead  
           Emptiness and bittersweet airs

 

            Yet we try to cling to their memories
       of their songs and laughter
             unlike any we shall hear again in our lifetime.

 

   Just listen; maybe you, too can hear t[he]i[r] echoes