Gone

Gone

The brass band continues its steady march
The wind shuffles autumn leaves in the grass
The sun casts shadows ‘neath sycamore trees
Spring flowers’ nectar still tempting the bees
Yet something’s changed since We became One
Everything’s different now that you’re gone.

Once in a while, the rain soaks the ground
Lovers rejoicing the love they have found
Nettle will sting the skin that it grazes
Jubilant mothers study newborn faces
All is so normal yet all’s so wrong
Everything’s altered now that you’re gone.

Mocking birds mimic our cries in the night
Time is forgotten with carefree delight
The world evolves on its axis, as before
Our love cast in stone, lives forevermore
Curtains are drawn where once your light shone
Everything’s dark here now that you’re gone.

Driftwood still washes upon foreign shores
Purple-flowered heather adorning the moors
Butterflies reveal all of their splendour
The truth in our hearts helps us remember:
The love that we built has not been undone
It’s simply different, now that you’re gone.