The shift to Autumn comes as a surprise
Summer was extreme yet it has died
The intense sun, the air on naked flesh
The sweat and strain, the heat, the thirstiness
As in the meadows we were walking by
Forgotten were the worries of past days.
We had knelt and wept and wished to pray
Words came very hard and with delay
Or suddenly like hailstones in a rush
A strange Autumn
We do not want revealed the unknown way
We wish to be the same and life to stay
Yet like blood, the sudden tears will gush
As if the poison of the grief will flush
And we the final bill must surely pay
In Autumn
we
How my heart sings 