fall

Representative of the gypsy, emblematic
pragmatic, plus one in the bag
gone for a summer
I've milled throughout this fiction's claim
gone until winter
gone for the summer
circumventing the fall

A milieu of modern promise and praise
when the day's apprentice
left to hold the sun's reign
he was gone for the summer
enticing the fall

Our sanctity prevails
over untreated allegory
as she failed me once aside the ocean
gone for a summer
revealed in the fall
gone without winter

Abdicating patience
in an omnipresent fog
this presence of mind resigns us to peace
and I am set at ease
in the mountains of Tennessee

To see beyond reason
yet continue to fall
long gone is the altruistic winter
far gone is the fog

Absence in opposition
now the sole distinction to be held by the spring
I have come to embrace the fall