The Fight of The Year

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Break your bones, snap the twigs
Winter has come softly stealing in the night
Gently tapping one by one
blind winters night steps through our homes
Sneaking past the sun
till one dawn the locks are stuck, the years undone
cold hearted luck ------ the summers gone
locked behind a crystal veil
the sun looks through to no avail
no fight can win the day this time
we have to wait it out ------- frost fine
or follow the butterfly or swallow
watching the dying threads and webs
of spiders as they cocoon in their warm beds
the autumn weaving spells and shining icy stars look down
upon a glittering frosty gown ---- that covers all the earth
in deathly beauty cold but clear like fresh streams or truth
or first love white and sharp yet clear, like fear,
sweet pale youth the early year -----as January bites
and night owls shreak and foxes scream and mate
in everlasting nightmares dreams and haunted hunted times awake
sharp and sickle moonlit skies break
icy lust cold passion long, black and white rules, nature waits,
it hides but as the gales grow strong
rain full and falling, hail fires its bullets warnings
breaks all life and love apart finally obstinate seeds crack
old hearts snapped open
so the lust of winters lost
and broken like a shock
a warm wind comes among the everlasting storm
winters hold is gone he’s et his fill and had his pain a shivers thrill
great battles last but all is lost
the locks are broken love has won through

and we can see life stirring
frogs are heralds croaking -- cats are purring
Once dead trees blossom ----- death has gone
the moon and night step back ----- as the sun a firey queen
returns in blazing glory, ------ such victory,
of pure light and beauty
redhead and blonde how could she be put away
she denies the night brings early dawns
and dances through blinding days
yet one day in the later year when thought of cold and loss
and night is utterly forgot
the quiet thief a deathly beauty
will return and change the locks ……….

Jon Proctor 2006