Fallow/Letters

Summer sunsets
With the cloud silhouettes
Seem so far from this winter sunrise

With a misty gray morn
And a heart that's been torn
Walk away, leave the plow where it lies

Will I hold onto you
Just to cling to my youth
Like the frost does the window sill

And though I repine
Well, I must leave behind
All the thoughts from my fallow field
It gave all it could yield

Your baltic blue eyes
There, my heart had capsized
In the depths of your steady gaze

I was gasping for air
In the grip of your stare
All your waters had set me ablaze

Now the tide is brought low
And my heart has grown cold
By the winds of the years that pass

Used to hear your sweet voice
Now I don't hear a noise
Just the rain that's tapping on the glass
How we hold to the past

Cause the fire's now embers
Ever since last December
We gave into those fireside tales

Now the wind rocks and shakes her
As I read from her papers
All the lines from a hand I once held
I sit and wait for the mail