The sky has turned grey
The leaves gone from the trees
A cold wind replaces
The warm summer breeze

Birds have flown south
I watched them flock together
In their hundreds, across the sky, they soared
In search of warmer weather

The garden is bare, summer colours asleep
The buds of winter blooms, just beginning to peep
Squirrels gathering their winter crop
Scurrying around they never seem to stop

The dark nights are drawing ln
How long the night appears to be
Memories of those long summer nights
When you lay here with me

You picked me summer flowers
we sat together on the lawn
sitting under a starlit sky
often chatting until dawn

I savoured every moment,
mine was not to reason why
When come the end of summer,
you would have to say goodbye


Summer love, bright and breezy
Bittersweet, we had to part
The warmth of the memory, of hot summer nights
Through the winter, they'll warm my heart!