Autumn Skies
/A folk-style song lyric - seasonal reflection on failed ambition
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The life I’ve lived, before me
reflects in autumn skies
Scenes of roads I’ve traveled
Replay across my mind
Shadows now are falling
O’er my empty home
The autumn skies grow cloudy
I ponder them, alone
The light of new day’s dawning’s
Become twilight, forlorn
Evening’s stealthy calling
Mocks promises of morn’
Flowers of love and passion
Which once so brightly bloomed
Denied hope and compassion
Wither in dusky gloom
Doubts and fears, abetted
Commitments compromised
Choices since regretted
Reflect in autumn skies
The last leaves now are falling
Memories of long ago
Winter lies before me
Down the path which I must go
Loss and disappointment
Loneliness and grief
Dreams denied and stolen
By Fate, that sad, cruel thief
Chances never taken
Broken hearts and lies
Loves lost and forsaken
Reflect in autumn skies
What comes unto this moment
Could I now but reprise
The life I’ve lived, before me
reflects in autumn skies
By Mike Turner
From: United States
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