When you and I were summer, and the sky
was greyer than the green that grew between
my linden and your oaken strength, serene,
eternal as the shadows passing by.
You whispered me a question; my reply
was lost upon the winds of might-have-been
for change must come to every tranquil scene
and gifts from gods are not what they imply
Forever is a dream lost to the dawn
and temples fall to dust beneath the years
as roses split the stones and oceans dry;
yet boughs will bend and brave the tearing thorn
to claim the scars as treasured souvenirs,
and laugh until the summer, you and I.
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Submission Name: Metamorphoses
