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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