You are the warm breeze that hits my shoulders in summer When I am sitting in the shade Roots mingling with blades of grass Bumble bees cozy in my braids
Always passing Always watching Always moving Always there And I too am always passing Always moving Always watching And always there But you just so happen to not be aware Of my presence
You somehow are able to make flowers dance You even make the weeds waltz and sway You make butterflies blush and blue birds sing But yet you never seem to stay
Soon fall comes around the corner And your chill makes the oak trees drop their clothes We graze fingertips as you wrap around my hips And we nearly touch lips And time suddenly froze
So did you
You became a chilling breeze of ice I had to force away your embrace Because slowly snowflakes and frost Appeared across my face
I’ve longed to be with you since forever But every weeping willow tree knows As much as I wanted to hold on to you The wind must eventually go
So a watched you glide away Across the freshly fallen snow And without a breeze nearby Things were moving slow
No poppies were swaying No sunflowers were smiling No butterflies were in sight The weeds were not waltzing The blue birds did not sing And there were no stars twinkling in the sky that night
Soon the snow melted into dandelions And the snowflakes melted midair into rain Sprinkling on the concrete sidewalks And the noise seemed to wash out my brain
Because that next summer I didn’t miss you Your presence no longer meant a thing And I think everyone also forgot Because the roses still bloomed And the blue birds would still sing
And one day I felt a warm breeze walk by While I was sitting in the shade My roots in between blades of grass And flowers stuck in strands of my braids
Since forever I’ve longed for this feeling That’s why I’ll never know That instead of holding on I decided to let the breeze go