Summer abandon
Endless blue skies around
Children’s elemental desires fulfilled

Fairy tale blessings
And cartoon like colours
Brim over the scenes unwilled

Old spirits of the earth arise
With your timeless chants of love
Topped like a cake with it’s cherry
The warmth shining down from above


Come follow me into the garden and forget
Embrace the opium of the days
Where comfort comes from surprising places
Absorbing, delivering its ways

Joy beyond kissing a young face
Beyond the grace of a petal on the breeze
Of a friendship that is old and steady
Where death is given no place

Now sing to me bring to me those that are mine
And come gather round while there is still time

As the wind will stir its mournful tease
And the sun will drop away
The times will change and thoughts will range
From pillow to pillow to pillow

The green will turn to orange
And brown, earth and dust
My thoughts will increase their sorrow
And joy will slowly rust

Old spirits of the earth arise, you sing to me of glory
And give my tired body and weary eyes
A remembrance of our youth

For those seasons I see today
Are blended dreary and damp
The exciting set change rituals
Are invoked by dirty tramps

As quick as a flasher with his Mac
The vivid pictures are done
Rumplestiltskin has stolen the baby
God’s firstborn has neglectfully gone

So sing to me bring to me those that are mine
And we’ll gather round while there is still time

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