Winter

What will we be

Without you and me -

Following days in the sand 

With the warmth of the trail found there?

Winter settles in and we change

Against all our best promises in summer, 

Without realizing what’s set in -

As early dusk falls. 

We layer up the walls again,

Waiting for the lights to change us back.

Wherever they be found or broken in. 

But what of life when it takes you away?

When more mornings are on planes

Than in your arms.

And more nights in an empty office

Than a sea of feelin. 

How slow the time goes now,

And how weary tired we come in from it each, without anything to share. 

Promise me we’ll meet the spring together

Even if there’s no ringing of the new year. 

Even if everything turns up wrong -

We’ll sleep in memories once close. 

That this long winter 

Will pass us better, after all. 

Pick up the conversation
at the start of every adventure.

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