Melancholy

On woodland path cloaked in red, I trudge up to nowhere

My warmth is spent, a chill doth sets, a gloom spans the sphere

The lake lies dull sans a ripple, I cry a tearless tear

She lies wrapped, in earth's bosom, her voice I long to hear

As October twilight fills the air, a haze befogs her visage

My heart aches to feel but once the warmth of her embrace

A bosom friend, that destiny hurled once into my path

My life that earned a treasure rich, flowed louder than a strath

An autumnal mist eclipses life that sparkled like a beam

My mate n' chum, she now recedes to morning's fading dream

White as snow the wintry chill has snubbed off the wick

The flame we lit has long died, its soot I scrape off thick

Spring comes n' summer fades, 'tis fall's chill afore winter's snow

A season comes and a season goes and all that stays is but the blow