My Favourite Season... The Summer of Our Love

Grasping hands of old oak trees
Skeletal and leafless reached out to stop me
As we passed them by.
Snow crunched underfoot
Blanketed over the trees dead leaves
As we walked towards our lake.

Shining like a field of diamonds,
The glassy ice hid the cold, cold bottom
Of our frozen lake
It hid the decay of autumn past;
Decaying plants and cold dead fish
As we both put on our skates.

We walked out to the icy edge and
Hand in hand we skated,
You had found another life,
Today would be our last

I kissed you as we skated, I
Took my hand from yours, and
Moved out on my own, alone, to where
The ice was thinnest.

You heard the crack and
Screamed for me
As through the ice I fell
The waters chill embrace
It stole my breath away-

Too cold to breath
Too cold to live
The water and my heart.
I sank towards the bottom
As our lake sucked out my life

I died as I promised you in life
I would
I died within the sight of you
With the taste of you still on my lips.

No other would I see you with
Nor know a time I wasn’t yours

Your hand the last I ever touched
Your eyes the last I ever saw
Your heart the last I ever loved
Your lips the last I ever kissed

It’s winter now, so cold and hard
Though many years have come to pass
I lay within our lakes embrace
I see you come and sit a while
I see you still remember us.

It’s winter now, my bones are chilled
My heart? It still holds summer.

The summer of our love.

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