Cold half moon hurls through autumn skies
The maple trees wave their sad good-byes
Leaden clouds roll quickly into the east
The stars reach out their lights to me
While an errant wind laughs in my ear
"what do you want here little man?"
"why do you suffer and struggle so?"
"Who do you think you are fooling friend?"
"when will you give up your hopes and dreams?"
"where did you think your life would go?"
I sit numb and frozen in the open window,
pondering, wondering, alone in the night
I growl a warning at it's smirking leer
Enough! I draw my weary frame upright,
shoulders square, my teeth are bared.
"No longer can I be swayed by doubt "
"I am a man on a mission" I shout
"I know my heart, and know my mind"
"I seek loves must priceless treasure, "
"that I was forced to leave behind"
The moon completes it's nightly circuit
the clouds have been long swept away,
on the heels of the passing autumn wind
The stars eclipsed by the dawning light
of the rosy September morning's glow
